
Qass. 
Book 



EI-^IdX 



S-Kl^ 



PRESENTED BV 



\Wc^a 



* I 



) 



^rtnnual Hational 



<J4J Gncarni^mcrtt 

I" the (Jrand^rmy ^rthe [Republic 







Sv;i 



'I 



~<--r\<.'r^\ Covv^Yr^^■V\ e.€. T'^V nV( e 5 ^ <K *-> 



^.Or.!-. 



A JInnual national 



33 



Encampments^ 



Grand Jlrmv 
of the 
Republic 



Philadelphia, September 
4-9, 1899. 



Published under the aus- 
pices of ihe Grand Army 
of the Republic 







..BY.. 
HUGO THORSCH 

631 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 



wm 



mMi)\mMhmW\^ 



x 

.K\75 




C. J. HEXAMER. Chairman 

4V.) Wctliuit Strett 

J. HAMPTON MOORE. Secretary 
City Hall 

Victor Angerer 
Thomas Chamber/in 
Charles H. Clarke 
Joseph R. Craig 
A. H. Fetter olf 
F. Ha Herman 
Franklin Hall 
Robert S. Leithead 
Arno Leonhardt 
Marion D. Learned 
M. Richards Muckle 
William H. Staake 




Copyright. iSgi), 

by 

LOUIS WAGNER, Chairman. 



...PROQRAMiVlE FOR THE WEEK... 

MONDAY, September 4th. Reception at the railroad stations of the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, Grand Army of the Republic, of visiting Posts and of Delegations. 

Afternoon. 2.30. Parade of Naval Veterans. 

TUESDAY, September 5th, 10 A. M. Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

Evening. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust streets. Official welcome to the 
National Encampment, G. A. R., and National Conventions, Woman's Relief Corps, 
Ladies of the G. A. R., Army Nurses, Naval Veterans, Prisoners of War Association, 
U. S. Signal Corps Association, Sons of Veterans, and complimentary to the contribu- 
tors to the Entertainment Fund. 

WEDNESDAY, September 6th, Morning. Parade, Union Ex-prisoners of War. 

Evening. Reception and " Dog Watch," National Association of Naval Veterans, 
Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets. 

Receptions— Continental Hotel, Ninth and Chestnut Streets : 
Woman's Relief Corps, in Ladies' Parlor. 
Daughters of Veterans, in Headquarters of G. A. R. 
Ladies of the G. A. R. and Army Nurses, in Parlor " C." 

THURSDAY EVENING. September 7th. Camp-fire, Union Ex-prisoners of War, 
at the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets. 

Camp Jas. A. Sexton. Grand display of fireworks at Camp in front of Belmont 
Mansion, Fairmount Park. Band Concert^War-time Music. 

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, September 6th and 7th. 
National Encampment and Conventions. 

Grand Army of the Republic. Grand Opera House, Broad St. and Montgomery Ave. 

Naval Veterans. St. George's Hall, 13th and Arch Streets. 

Union Ex-prisoners of War. Odd Fellows' Temple, Broad and Cherry Streets. 

Woman's Relief Corps. Witherspoon Hall, Walnut Street, east of Broad Street. 

Ladies of the G. A. R. Y. M. C A. Building, Chestnut and Fifteenth Streets. 

Ladies' Auxiliary, Naval Veterans. Lecture Room, Y. M. C. A. Building, Chestnut 
and Fifteenth Streets. 

National Army Nurses' Association. Fidelity Insurance Building, Broad and 
Cherry Streets. 

Daughters of Veterans. Hall of Post 160, 1363 Ridge Avenue. 

Loyal Home Woriters. Hall of Post 160, 1363 Ridge Avenue. 

Re-unions of Military and Naval Organizations. 

Division Corps and Regimental Associations will meet in the buildings assigned 
to the Army with which they were connected, at the hours named in circular to be 
issued by Committee on Camp-fires and Re-unions. 

Commands of the Armies of the Potomac, James, and West Virginia. Odd Fellows 
Temple, Broad and Cherry Streets. 

Army of the Cumberland. First Regiment Armory, Broad and Callowhill Streets. 

Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio. State Fencibles Armory, Broad above Race St. 

General Rendezvous. Industrial Hall, Broad and Vine Streets. 

Naval Veterans. N. W. Cor. Broad and Vine Streets. 

Camp-fires. Camp-fires will be held in Camden, N. J.. Germantown and at other 
points in Philadelphia. The place and time of meeting and speakers will be published 
later. 

FRIDAY, September 8th. Review of the North Atlantic Squadron, United States 
Navy, Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson, commanding, and the U. S. Revenue Cutter Fleet. 

Excursions complimentary to the members of the National Encampment, G. A. R., National Assof-iations 
of Naval Veterans, National Conventions, W. R. C and Ladies of the G. A. R., and other National Orfjani- 
zations and invited quests, on the Delaware River, passing the North Atlantic Squadron, the U. S Revenue 
Cutter Fleet, and other War Vessels assigned lor this occasion. 

The vessels of the fleet will be illuminated by electric light each evening. Admission to the vessels as 
to hours, etc., will be in accordance with rules prescribed by the Rear Admiral Commanding. Vessels at League 
Island will be visited under rules prescribed by Rear Admiral Silas Casey, Commandant U. S. Navy Yard. 
Announcement of these rules will be made in the daily papers. 

LOUIS Wagner, Chainuan. 

ROB'T B. BEATH, Sccrdarr. 




JAMKS ANDRRW SKXTOX. 



THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 




By Robert b. beath, 

Past Commander-in-Cbief. 

The Grand Army of the Republic was organ- 
ized by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, who was in 
the service as surgeon of the Fourteentli Regiment, 
Illinois Infantry, ranking as Major. 

On the completion of the three-years' term of 
that regiment in 1864, Dr. Stephenson returned to 
Springfield to resume the practice of his profession. 
He was born in Wayne County, Illinois, October 30, 
1822. In 1825 his parents moved to Sangamon 
County where he grew to manhood, strong in body, 
but with meagre opportunities for obtaining an edu- 
cation. It was not until after he had attained his 
majority that he was able to take up the study of 
medicine, and he was graduated and commenced 
practice in Petersburg, Illinois, in 1849. ^^ ^^'^^ 
August 30, 1 87 1, in his forty-ninth year. 

He organized the first Post of the Grand Army 
of the Republic in Decatur, Illinois, on the sixth day of April, 1866. 
The charter reads as follows: 

Grand Army of the Republic, 
Department of Illinois. 
To all zvhoin it may concerti, greeting: 

Know ve, that the Commander of the Department of Illinois, reposing 
special trust and confidence in the patriotism and fidelity of M. F. Kanan, G. 
R. Steele, Geo. H. Dunning, I. C. Pugh, J. H. Nale, J. T. Bishop, C. Riebsame, 
J. W. Routh, B. F. Sibley, I. N. Coltrin, Joseph Prior, and A. Toland. does, by 
the authority in him vested, empower and constitute them Charter Members of 
an Elncampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be known as Post i, 
of Decatur, District of Macon, Department of Illinois, and they are hereby 
constituted as said Post, and authorized to make By-Laws for the government 
of said post, and to do and perform all acts necessary to conduct and carry on 
said organization in accordance with the Constitution of the Grand Army of 
the Republic. 

Done at Springfield, Illinois, this si.xth day of April, iJ^66. 

B. F. Stephenson, 
Commander of Department. 
Robert M. Woods, Adjutant-General. 

5 



The following named were elected as officers of the Post: M. 
F. Kanan, Post Commander; G, R. Steele, Post Adjutant; G. H. Dun- 
ning, Post Quartermaster; C. Riebsame, Officer of the Day; J, T. 
Bishop, Officer of the Guard; J. W, Routh, Post Surgeon; all of whom 
were duly mustered by Major Stephenson, who then declared the 
encampment duly organized, and assigned to it the post of Jwnor as 
Decatur Encampment, No. i. 

The general thought of Major Stephenson in relation to the 
objects of the organization may be best shown in the declaration 
of principles drafted by Major Robert M. Woods, Adjutant-General. 

ConstituHon of tJie Grand Army of the Republic. 

ARTICLE I. 
Deci^aration of Principles. 

Section i. The soldiers of the Volunteer Army of the United States, dur- 
ing the Rebellion of 1861-5, actuated by the impulses and convictions of 
patriotism and of eternal right, and combined in the strong bands of fellowship 
and unity by the toils, the dangers, and the victories of a long and vigorously 
waged war, feel themselves called upon to declare, in definite form of words 
and in determined co-operative action, those'principles and rules which should 
guide the earnest patriot, the enlightened freeman, and the christian citizen in 
his course of action; and to agree upon those plans and laws which should 
govern them in a united and systematic working method with which, in some 
measure, shall be affected the preservation of the grand results of the war, the 
fruits of their labor and toil, so as to benefit the deserving and worthy. 

Section 2. The results which are designed to be accomplished by this 
organization are as follows: 

1st. The preservation of those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound 
together, with the strong cords of love and affection, the comrades in arms of 
many battles, sieges and marches. 

2d. To make these ties available in works and results of kindness, of favor 
and material aid to those in need of assistance. 

3d. To make provision, where it is not already done, for the support, care 
and education of soldiers' orphans, and for the maintenance of the widows of 
deceased soldiers. 

4th. For the protection and assistance of disabled soldiers, whether disabled 
by wounds, sickness, old age or misfortune. 

5th. For the establishment and defense of the late soldiery of the United 
States, morally, socially and politically, with a view to inculcate a proper 
appreciation of their services to the country, and to a recognition of such 
services and claims by the American people. 



To this section the National Encampment at the session in Phila- 
delphia, January, 1868, added: 

But this Association does not design to make noniiuations for office or to 
use its influence as a secret organization for partisan purposes. 



The Indianapolis Convention (November, 1866) added the 
word "sailors" which had been inadvertently omitted in the Spring- 
field* Constitution, and 
also added a new sec- 
tion copied from the Con- 
stitution of the " Loyal 
Legion," as follows: 

6th. The maintenance 
of true allegiance to the 
United States of America, 
based upon paramount re- 
spect for, and fidelity to, the 
national constitution and 
laws, manifested by the dis- 
countenancing of whatever 
may tend to weaken loyalty, 
incite to insurrection, treason 
or rebellion, or in any man- 
ner impairs the efiiciency and 
permanency of our free in- 
stitutions, together with a 
defense of universal liberty, 
equal rights and justice to 
all men. 




DR. BENJAMIN F STKPHENSON. 



To expedite the 
work of organization of 
Posts throughout the 
Union, Major Stephen- 
son appointed a staff consisting of Colonel Jules C. Webber, Aid- 
de-Camp and Chief of Staff ; Major Robert M. Woods, Adjutant- 
General ; Colonel John M. Snyder, Quartermaster General; 
Lieutenant John S. Phelps, Aid-de-Camp; Captain John A. Light- 
foot, Assistant Adjutant-General. 

A number of Posts were soon organized in Illinois, and on July 
12, 1866, a Convention was held in Springfield to constitute a Depart- 



ment for that State, which was largely attended by many prominent 
veterans. General S. A. Hurlbut was Chairman of the Committee 
on Resolutions. 

Major-General John M. Palmer was elected Department Com- 
mander; Major-General John Cook, Assistant Department Com- 
mander; General Jules C. Webber, Adjutant-General; Colonel John 
M. Snyder, Quartermaster-General; John A. Lightfoot, Assistant 
Adjutant-General. Council of Administration — General John 
McArthur, General T. F. Mather and General I. C. Pugh. 

To properly recognize the work of Dr. Stephenson the Conven- 
tion unanimously adopted the following: 

Whereas, we, the ineinbers of the Grand Army of the Republic, recognize 
in Major Stephenson, of Springfield, Illinois, the head and front of the organi- 
zation; be it, therefore, 

Resolved, that for the energy, loyalty, and perseverance manifested in 
organizing the Grand Army of the Republic, he is entitled to the gratitude of 
all brave men, and that we, the soldiers, hereby tender him our thanks, and 
pledge him our friendship at all times and under all circumstances. 

The election of a Department Commander by the Springfield 
Convention relieved Major Stephenson of any further responsibility 
for the work of organization in Illinois, and he turned his attention 
to other States, acting properly as Commander-in-Chief, without 
other authority than that first assumed, as the organizer of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

General Webber and Colonel Snyder gave their attention more 
particularly to the Department of Illinois, and the principal labor 
elsewhere devolved upon Adjutant-General Robert M. Woods, who 
visited Madison, Wis., Columbus, O., St. Louis, Mo., and other 
points, to arrange for the organization of Departments. Colonel 
Snyder organized the Department of Minnesota. 

By October, 1866, Departments had been formed in Illinois, 
Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota, and Posts were organized 
in Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, District of Columbia, 
Massachusetts, New ^drk and Pennsyhania, when Dr. Stephenson, 
as Commander-in-Chief, called a National Convention to assemble 
in Indianapolis, November 20, 1866. All of the above States were 
there represented, with delegations from the "Veteran Brother- 
hood," of Kansas, and tin- " Soldiers and Sailors Union " of New 
York. 



Major Clayton McMichael, Captain Rosvvell M. Feltus and 
Colonel John G. Kelley, represented Posts i and 2 of Philadelphia 
in this Encampment. 

The following were elected officers of the National Encamp- 
ment: 

Commander-in-Chief, S. A. Hurlbut, Illinois; Senior Vice- 
Commander-in-Chief, J. B. McKean, New York; Junior Vice- 
Commander-in-Chief, R. S. Foster, Indiana; Adjutant-General, B. 
F. Stephenson, Illinois; Quartermaster-General, August Willich, 
Ohio; Surgeon-General, D. C. McNeil, Iowa; Chaplain, William A. 
Pile, Missouri; Council of Administration — J. K. Proudfit, Wisconsin; 
William Vandever, Iowa; T. O. Osborn, Illinois; T. C. Fletcher, 
Missouri; T. T. Taylor, Ohio; H. K. Milward, Kentucky; F. J. 
Bramhall, New York; Nathan Kimball, Indiana; Clayton McMichael, 
Pennsylvania. 

A public meeting was held in the evening, presided over by 
General Palmer. The War Governor of Indiana, Oliver P. Morton, 
was enthusiastically received, the audience rising and greeting him 
with hearty cheers. 

The resolutions adopted by this fust National Encampment are 
interesting, as showing the prevailing sentiment of the veterans on 
public questions, as well as on those more directly affecting their 
personal interests: 

We, the representatives of the soldiers and sailors of the military and 
uaval service of the United States, during the late war against traitors, re- 
affirming our devotion to these States, the Constitution and the laws of our 
country, and our abhorrence of treason and oppression; resolve, 

Fu'st. That the Grand Army of the Republic is organized to maintain in 
civil life those great principles for which it stood in arms under the national 
flag; that it stands pledged to crush out active treason, to advance and support 
loyalt}', to secure sound constitutional liberty to all men, and to vindicate 
everywhere, and at all times, the full and complete rights of every loyal 
American citizen, against all combinations of force or fraud that may attempt 
to deny or deprive them of such rights. 

Seco?id. . That we pledge all the power and influence which, as individuals 
or as an association, we can legitimately yield, in the most especial manner to 
those gallant men who stood fast by the country in the hour of its agony, in the 
rebellious States; and who, through all manner of losses and injuries, persecu- 
tions by force and persecutions under color of law, maintained their integrity 
and vindicated their loyalty; and we solemnly declare that no power that we 
can use shall be neglected until they are thoroughly and completely protected 



10 

in the active exercise of every right of American freemen, through the entire 
country over which our flag floats. 

Third. That Congress, in justice and not in charity, should pass a law 
equalizing in a just manner, the bounties of all Union soldiers and sailors. 

Fourth. That we now, as heretofore, pledge ourselves to use our best 
endeavors to procure appropriate State and national legislation for the educa- 
tion and maintenance of the orphans and widows of our deceased comrades, 
and maimed brethren, and to enforce a speedy adjustment and payment of all 
lawful claims against the Government due soldiers and sailors and their friends. 

Fifth. That in our opinion no man is worthy to be a free citizen of a free 
country who is not willing to bear arms in its defence, and we therefore suggest 
to Congress the passage of a law making it the inexorable duty of every citizen 
to defend his country in time of need, in person and not by substitute. 

Sixth. That as a matter of justice and right, and because the sacrifices made 
and dangers encountered by the Union soldiers and sailors who served in the 
late war for the preservation of the country, cannot ever be fully repaid, we 
respectfully ask that those in authority bestow upon needy and worthy soldiers 
and sailors such positions of honor and profit as they may be competent to fill; 
and while we seek nothing for ourselves, or those of our comrades who are able 
to maintain themselves, we do earnestly recommend this request to the con- 
sideration of those in authority. And we especially ask the attention of 
President Johnson to " his policy " heretofore declared on this subject. 

With the election of a Commander-in-Chief at Indianapolis, it 
was expected that the Order would be speedily placed on a more 
effective basis. Posts were certainly soon organized in large num- 
bers in the Central Western States, and more slowly, but more 
effectively, in the East, but results soon showed that many thou- 
sands of men had entered the Grand Army with but vague under- 
standing of its objects, and their curiosity being once satisfied, they 
allowed their membership to lapse; while others had evidentl\' 
joined in the expectation of immediate personal benefit through its 
assumed importance as a political factor. 

There were instances where Posts interfered in factional political 
disputes, even demanding that nominations to offices be made of 
members or friends and these few instances were so magnified by 
the press that general distrust of the organization was created and 
remained long in the public mind. Hven leadersof the dominant parties 
not being sure of the power or intentions of the organization fostered 
this adverse feeling, all these tending to weaken the ranks, and 
retarding the formation of new Posts. Several departments report- 
ing to the first and second Encampments as liaving a large number of 
Posts organized, entirely disappeared from the rolls, and others. 



II 

holding merely the form of an organization, could report but a few 
Posts maintaining regular meetings. 

In the East, Posts were more slowly organized, but they were 
placed and retained on a sounder basis, and there can be no doubt 
that the persistence and faithfulness of the comrades of the East 
prevented the dissolution of the organization. 

The Second National Encampment was held in Philadelphia, 
January 15, 1868. The use of the Common Council Chamber in 
Independence Hall being granted for the purpose at the request of 
General Louis Wagner, then a member of Common Council and 
Department Commander G. A. R, of Pennsylvania. 

Twenty-one Departments were represented, and the members 
were convinced from the meagre reports presented that a radical 
change was required in the administration of the affairs of the 
Order. 

A proposition to change the terms of the Declaration of Princi- 
ples which would show the Order to be non-partisan, gave rise to a 
heated discussion which threatened to lead to a disruption; one side 
claiming that the organization should be avowedly political in its 
objects, the other, while as desirous of upholding " the rights of the 
defenders of their country by all moral, social and political means 
in our control," took the ground that partisanship had practically 
destroyed the Order in the West, and would have the same effect 
elsewhere, and that the organization could not be maintained while 
there was any ground for the popular belief that it was a secret 
political society. The amendment " that this association does not 
design to make nominations for office or to use its influence as a 
secret organization for partisan purposes," was finally carried. 

The following were elected officers: Commander-in-Chief, John 
A. Logan, Illinois; Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, Joshua T. 
Owen, Pennsylvania; Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, Joseph R. 
Hawley, Connecticut; Adjutant-General, N. P. Chipman, Potomac; 
Inspector-General, Edward Jardine, New Jersey; Quartermaster- 
General, T. C. Campbell, Ohio; Surgeon-General, Dr. John Bell, 
Iowa; Chaplain-General, Rev. A. H. Quint, Massachusetts. 

General John F. Hartranft was chosen as the member of the 
National Council of Administration from Pennsylvania. 

General Logan, was one of the most popular, as he was the 
leading, representative volunteer officer in the country. He gathered 



12 

around him an efficient staff and every effort was put forth to regain 
lost ground and make the organization all that was originally hoped 
for. Still it was manifestly slow work, and some years passed 
before any visible gain was made. 

One special act of General Logan's administration deserves to 
be here prominently presented, the establishment of 

Memorial Day. 

Early in May, 1868, Adjutant-General Chipman received a 
letter from some comrade in Cincinnati, whose name unfortunately 
cannot now be learned, in which the writer referred to the fact that 
he had served as a private soldier in the Union Army; that in his 
native country, Germany, it was the custom of the people to assemble 
in the spring-time and place flowers upon the graves of the dead. 

He suggested that the Grand Army of the Republic inaugurate 
such an observance in memory of the Union dead. 

General Chipman thought the suggestion most opportune, and 
at once made a rough draft of a general order covering this subject, 
and laid it, with the letter referred to, before General Logan. 

General Logan heartily approved the suggestion and made some 
changes in the order as outlined. The date selected, May 30, was 
with the idea of using one of the spring months because of their 
poetical associations^ and also to make it late in the last spring 
month, that it might be possible to find flowers in the New England 
and extreme Northern States. 

The order reads as follows: 

Headquarters Grand Army of the Repubijc, 
Washington, D. C, May 5, 186S. 
General Orders, \ 
No. II. / 

I. The thirtieth day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strew- 
ing with flowers, or otlierwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in 
defence of their country during the hite rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in 
almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land. In this observ- 
ance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but Posts and comrades will in their 
own way arrange such fitting services and te.stimonials of respect as circum- 
stances may permit. 

We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose, 
among other things, " of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal 
feelings whicli have bound together the soldiers, sailors and marines who united 



13 

to suppress the late rebellion." ' What can aid more to assure this result than 
by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts 
a barricade between our country and its foes ? Their soldier lives were the 
reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious 
tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All 
that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment 
and security is but a fitting tribute to the memor\- of lier slain defenders. Let 
no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths 
invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no 
vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to 
the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people ihe cost of a free and 
undivided republic. 

If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the 
solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life 
remain to us. • 

Let us, then, at the time appointed, gather around their sacred' remains 
and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of 
springtime; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor; 
let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom 
they have left among us, a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude — the sol- 
dier's and sailor's widow and orphan. 

II. It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observ- 
ance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor 
of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earn- 
estly desires the public press to call attention to this order, and lend its friendly 
aid in bringing it to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time 
for simultaneous compliance therewith. 

III. Department Commanders will use every effort to make this Order 

eff"ective. 

By command of 

John A. Logan, 

Com uia ndcr- in - Cli icf. 
N. P. Chipman, Adjutant-General 

In this article it is manifestly impracticable to present in detail 
the work of the organization, its marvelous growth after a few 
years of hard, earnest work on the part of its officers and com- 
rades, is best shown in the tabulated figures given at the close; a 
few general references must suffice. 

In 1869 the following Article was added to the Rules and 
Regulations: 

No officer or comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic shall in any 
manner use this organization for partisan purposes, and no discussion of par- 
tisan questions shall be permitted at any of its meetings, nor .shall any nomina- 
tions for political office be made. 



14 

This has continued to be the law of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, and under it the organization has grown to be a powerful 
influence for good, a grand conservator of peace. 

The Grand Army has used this influence to secure legislation 
for the care and education of the orphans of dead comrades, for 
increased pensions for widows and orphans and dependent parents, 
and for homes for homeless veterans upon whom the hand of adver- 
sity has fallen. It has urged an increase of pensions for the disabled 
to help them in their advancing years and increasing infirmities, and 
has sought to remove from the nation the shame of permitting men 
who saved its life to live, die and be buried as paupers in the land 
they helped to save. 

While asking State and Nation for needed aid for the unfortu- 
nate they have not been unmindful of their own obligations to suf- 
fering comrades. As shown by the official reports, hundreds of 
thousands of dollars have been annually disbursed by the Grand 
Army for charity, in addition to personal donations of members that 
must amount to fully as much more. 

And what account shall be taken of fraternal visits to homes of 
afflicted comrades — a work shared in later years by tlie Woman's 
Relief Corps and by Ladies' Aids under different names; of the 
comfort given the dying veteran in the assurance that wife and chil- 
dren should be cared for and not left to the cold charity of a heedless 
world? 

The charitable work of the Grand Army has been carried on 
without distinction of party or creed, rank or color, and very largely 
for the benefit of those who have remained outside the organization 
and who had contributed nothing to its support. 

The Grand Army of the Republic has long recovered from the 
mistakes of its early years. With a membership drawn only from 
the limited number who were privileged to wear the uniform of their 
country in the days of its great peril, the growth of the Order for 
some years was phenomenal, but each year brings an ever-increasing 
death-rate among the survivors, and as there is no provision for the 
continuance of the Order, another generation will know of it only as 
a memory. 

It is now over thirt\'-three years since iJr. Stephenstm formu- 
lated tlu' plans for this organization of veterans of the war against 
rebellion. His body has long lain in that beautiful cemeter\' on tlie 
banks of the Sangamon River, but his work goes grandly on. 



15 

The cultivation of FRATERNITY in this, the arandest association 
of soldiers and sailors ever formed, and the exemplification of 
CHARITY for the distressed, have been only portions of the work of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, 

It has countenanced nothing of personal animosities against 
those who, in the past, so wrongfully arrayed themselves against 
their country, and it has sought to impress upon rising generations 
the lessons drawn from the history of the past, at such great cost of 
life and treasure — that the highest duty of the citizen is LOYALTY to 
his country and its flag! 

The following shows the membership on June 30, of each year, 
since 1878, with the losses by death since 1886: 

membp:rship since 1878. 

Members. Members. 

1878 3I-016 1889 397.974 

1879 44-752 1890 409.4'''9 

1880 60,634 1891 407,781 

1881 85,856 1892 399,880 

1882 134,701 1893 397.223 

1883 215,446 1894 -.369,083 

1884 273,168 1895 357,639 

1885 294,787 1896 340,610 

1886 323.571 1897 319.456 

1887 355,916 189S 305,603 

t888 . 372,960 



LOSS Bv dp:.\th. 

Per cent. 

For year ending March 31, i8S6 3, 020 0.93 

" 31, 1887 3,406 0.95 

. " " " 31, 1888 4,433 i-i8 

" " June 30, 1889 4,696 4. iS 

" 30, 1890 5,476 1.33 

" " " 30, 1S91 5,965 1-46 

'* " " 30, 1892 6,404 1. 61 

" 30, 1893 7,002 1.78 

" 30, 1894 7,283 2.97 

" 30, 1895 7,368 2.06 

" " "30, 1896 7,293 2.21 

" " " 30, 1897 • 7,515 2 35 

" 30, 1898 8,383 2.41 



i6 



ANNUAL Sessions of The National hNCAMPMENT and 
Commanders-in-Chief Elected. 



1. Nov. 20, 

2. Jau. 15, 

3. May 12, 
May II, 
May 10, 
May 8, 
May 14, 
May 13, 

9. May 12, 

10. Jt:ne 30, 

11. June 26, 

12. June 4, 

13. Juue 17, 

14. June 8, 

15. June 15, 

16. June 21, 

17. July 25, 

18. July 23, 

19. June 24, 

20. Aug. 4, 

21. Sept. 28, 

22. Sept. 12, 

23. Aug. 28, 

24. Aug. 13, 

25. Aug. 5, 

26. Sept. 21, 
.27. Sept. 6, 

28. Sept. 12, 

29. Sept. 12, 

30. Sept. 3, 

31. Aug. 26, 

32. Sept. 8, 

33. vSept. 6, 



866 

868 
869 
870 

871 
872 

873 
874 

875 
876 

877 
878 
879 
880 
881 
882 
883 
884 
885 
886 
887 
888 



S91 
892 
893 
894 
895 
896 
897 
898 
899 



Indianapolis, Iiid. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
. Cincinnati, Ohio 
Washington, D. C. 
Boston Mass. . . 
Cleveland, Ohio 
New Haven, Conn 
Harrisburg, Pa. . 
Chicago, 111. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Providence, R. I. 
vSpringfield, Mass. 
Albany, N. Y. 
Dayton, Ohio . . 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Baltimore, Md. . 
Denver, Colo. 
Minneapolis, Minn 
Portland, Me. . 
San Francisco, Cal 
St. Louis, Mo. . 
Columbus, Ohio 
Milwaukee, Wis. 
Boston, Mass. . . 
Detroit, Mich. . 
Washington, D. C. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
Louisville, Ky. . 
St. Paul, Minn. . 
Buffalo, N. Y. . 
Cincinnati, Ohio 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



* Stephen A Hutiliut 
*John A. Logan . 



* A. E. Burnside 



"■'■ Chas. Devens, Jr. 
"■' Jno. F. Hartranfi 
*Jno. C. Robinson 



'''Win. Earnshaw 
Louis Wagner . . 
Geo. S. Merrill . . 
Paul Van Dervoort . 
Robt. B. Beath . . . 
John S. Kountz . . 
S. S. Burdett . . . . 

* Lucius Fairchi Id 
Jno. P. Rea 
Wra. Warner 
Russell A. Alger . . 

* Wheelock G. Veazey 
John Palmer 

A. G. Weissert . 
J. G. B. Adams 
Thos. G. Lawler . . 
Ivan N. W^alker . . 
T. S. Clarkson 
J. P. S. Gobin . . 
*Jas. A. Sexton . . 



111. 
111. 
111. 
111. 
R. I. 
R. I. 



JAMES ANDREW SEXTON. 

James Andrew Se.xton, who died in Washiii.^toii, D. C, Feb- 
ruary 5, 1899, vvliile serviiio; as Commander-in-Chief of the Granii 
Army of tlie Republic, enlisted in Chica^io on the nineteenth day ot 
April, 1861, under the President's first call for vokniteers, and at 
the end of the first three months' term he was appointed First Lieu- 



* Now (iSyy) cicccascil. 



17 

tenant Sixty-seventh Illinois Infantry. Subsequently he was 
promoted to captain Company D, Seventy-second Illinois hifantry, 
the First Chicago Board of Trade Regiment. 

Captain Sexton was in active service during the whole period 
of the war, discharging every duty with fidelity and earning the 
confidence of his superior officers. After his muster out, in August, 
1865, he engaged for a time as a planter in Alabama, but later he 
returned to Chicago and entered into business in that city as a stove 
manufacturer. Shortly before his election as Commander-in-Chief 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, Comrade Sexton had retired 
from business, and he confidently hoped to be able to visit a large 
number of the departments during his term. 

He was, however, invited by the President to serve as a mem- 
ber of the Commission to investigate the conduct of the war with 
Spain, and though not in good health, he felt it a duty to set aside 
personal convenience and accept. He attended to his duties on that 
Commission closely and conscientiously until stricken down by fatal 
illness. 

Comrade Sexton during his long business life found time to 
take an active part in public affairs and he served as Postmaster of 
Chicago from i88g to 1894. He was an ardent member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He served it in many positions because he 
loved it. His last visit to Philadelphia, a few weeks before his 
death, was to attend to the preliminary work of the Thirty-third 
National Encampment. He was the first Commander-in-Chief to 
die while in office. 

A man of fine presence and charming personality, he will be 
greatly missed in our councils. His memory will be tenderly 
cherished by his surviving comrades. 

WILLIAM CHRISTIE JOHNSTON. 

William Christie Johnston, Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, 
commanding the Grand Army of the Republic, was born in Cler- 
mont County, Ohio, March ig, 1843. His boyhood days were spent 
upon a farm, hi 1880 he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, 
at Delaware, Ohio. 

He was taken sick with typhoid fever in October, 1861, and 
after recovery, in July, 1862, he enlisted as a prix'ate in Company 




WILI lAM ClIRISTIH JOHNSTON. 
Siiiior Vice-ComiiKiiukr iii-Chif f. 



19 

F, Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer hitantiy. The regiment was first 
engaged in the campaign against the Confederate forces under 
General Kirby Smith, who were then threatening an attack on Cin- 
cinnati. They were then transferred to West Virginia, and in 
February, 1863, were sent to Nashville, Tenn., thence up the 
Cumberland River to Carthage, Tenn., where they remained until 
the Tullahoma campaign was inaugurated by the forces under Gen- 
eral Rosecrans. He was unable on account of sickness to proceed 
with his regiment, and was taken to Convalescent Camp, at Gal- 
latin, Tenn. On recovery he was detailed, by order of General 
Thomas, to act as hospital steward of the Fourteenth U. S. C. T., 
and so served until August, 1864, when he joined his regiment at 
Atlanta, Ga., and participated in the campaign against the Confed- 
erate forces under General Hood, serving in First Brigade, Third 
Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, a part 
of the forces commanded by General Sherman, whose army from 
this point turned again southward, moving through Rome, Ga., to 
Kingston, Ga., where preparation was made for "The March to 
the Sea." When the campaign through the Carolinas began, on 
reaching Goldsboro, N. C, he received an order (which had 
been issued in November previous) assigning him to duty as 
Second Lieutenant, Company A, Forty -second U. S. C. T., then 
stationed at Chattanooga. After the close of active preparations, 
Lieutenant Johnston served on court martial duty at Chattanooga, 
and was mustered out with his regiment at Huntsville, Ala., in 
January, 1866. 

In 1867 h^ engaged in the drug business in Union City, Ind., 
and in 1878 he engaged in the hardware business, removing to Cin- 
cinnati in 1881 and becoming a member of the firm of Johnston Bros. 
Hardware Company, of which he is at present \-ice-president and 
manager. 

The success of the Committee on Public Comfort at the Cin- 
cinnati Encampment was largely due to the wide business experience 
of Comrade Johnston, who was chairman of the C(jmmittee. 

He was elected Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief by the 
National Encampment in Cincinnati, September, 1898, and has 
been in command of the Grand Army of the Republic since 
the death of Commander-in-Chief James A. Sexton, in Februar\- 
last. 



20 



THOMAS J. STEWART. 

Thomas J. Stewart, Adjutant-General G. A. R., born Sep- 
tember II, 1848; a resident of Norristown, Montgomery County, 
Pa; enlisted at sixteen years of age in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Second Brigade, 
Third Division, Sixth Corps); a member of General S. K. Zook 

Post, No. II, Department of 
Pennsylvania, of which he was 
Commander in 1879; Assistant 
inspector-General G. A. R. in 
1880; in 1882 appointed Assist- 
ant Adjutant-General, Depart- 
ment of Pennsylvania; reap- 
pointed each year until 1889, 
when he was chosen Department 
Commander; in 1883 was ap- 
pointed Assistant Adjutant- 
General on staff of Commander- 
in-Chief Robert B. Beath ; ap- 
pointed Adjutant-General G, A. 
R. in 1897 by Commander-in- 
Chief J. P. S. Gobin; reap- 
pointed in 1898 by Commander- 
in-Chief James A, Sexton; was 
a member of General Assembly 
of Pennsylvania 1885-86; in 
1886 elected Secretary of in- 
ternal Affairs of Pennsyh'ania- 
re-elected in 1890; resigned Jan- 
uary, 1895, to accept appoint- 
ment as Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania, under Governor Daniel 
H. Hastings; reappointed Adjutant-General of Pennsyhania, Jan- 
uary, 1899, by Governor William A. Stone; appointed trustee Penn- 
sylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in 1886, and has' been secre- 
tary of the Board continuously since that time; served eight 
years as member ot (Commission in charge of Soldiers' Orphan 
Schools. 




THOMAS J. STl.WART. 



FREDERICK W. SPINK. 

Frederick W. Spink, Quar- 
termaster-General Grand Army 
of the Republic, served during; 
the War of the Rebellion in the 
United States Navy as a first- 
class boy, landsman and ordi- 
nary seaman, in the West Gulf 
and North and South Atlantic 
Squadrons, in the sloop of war 
"Brooklyn," gunboats "Nor- 
wich" and "E. B. Hale," and 
ship "New Hampshire;" mem- 
ber of General George A. Custer 
Post, No. 40, Department of 
Illinois, Grand Army of the 
Republic; was appointed Quar- 
termaster-General Grand Army 
of the Republic by the late 
Commander-in-Chief James A. 
Sexton. He has long been an 
active and influential member of the Grand Army in 11 




FKHDKKICK \V. SriNK. 



UdlS. 





Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic. 



JAMES fisher MORRISON. 



James Fisher Morrison, native of Philadelphia, born in 1840; 
graduate of the Philadelpliia High School ; enlisted May, 1861, pri- 
vate Company K, Second Pennsylvania Reserves ; a typical Ameri- 
can volunteer, participating in all that came to soldier life in the 
Army of the Potomac, until that 'fateful day, December, 13, 1862, 
at Fredericksburg, Va. ; a member of the color guard left desperately 
wounded and a prisoner in the hanels of the enemy, after the gallant 
and magnificent charge of the Pennsylvania Reserves in which 
Comrade Morrison was among the foremost with the colors of his 
regiment, for wltich he paid the penalty of incarceratidu amid the 
horrors of old Libby and disablement for life. 

\n Grand Army circles Comrade Morrison has probably achieved 
his greatest success. A member of Geo. D. Meade Post i, Assistant 



Adjutant-General of the Department of Pennsylvania in 1894, 
1895, 1896; member of the Executive Committee National Council 
of Administration ; was unanimously elected Department Com- 
mander at Wilkesbarre, June 8, 1899. 

To Comrade Morrison is largely due the present splendid and 
historical Headquarters of tlie Department, located at southwest 
corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, where met the first Supreme 
Court of the United States in 1791. His efforts and influences have 
largely aided in the result of saving thousands of dollars to the 
Department and placed its finances upon a souna basis with a hand- 
some cash balance on hand to meet contingencies. He at present 
occupies a position of great responsibility and trust in the civic 
government as Chief Clerk to the Receiver of Taxes where over 
$23,000,000 are handled annually. 



JOSEPH ROBERT CRAIG. 

Joseph Robert Craig, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 
sixty years ago ; educated in the common schools ; grew to man- 
hood amid the most fertile of valleys, a sturdy representative of the 
gallant sons of the old Keystone State. He enlisted as a private 
soldier in Company H, 133d P. V., which became attached to General 
Humphrey's Division of the Army of the Potomac and in the terrible 
assault upon Mary's Heights, December 13, 1862, suffered a loss of 
44 per cent of its membership. Comrade Craig has for many years 
been an untiring and active worker in the Grand Army of the 
Republic. A Past Post-Commander of Philadelphia's famous Post 
2 and Assistant Quartermaster General of the Department since 
1897. President of Grand Army Association of Philadelphia and 
vicinity, 1897, 1898 and 1899. He is one of the foremost business 
men of Philadelphia, a member of the well-known firm of Eshelman 
& Craig, manufacturers. 

HENRY IRVIN YOHN. 

Henry Irvin Yohn, of Geo. G. Meade Post i, Department of 
Pennsylvania; born in Pottsgrove, Montgomer\- County. Penn., 
October 27, 1848 ; a direct descendent of the Rev. Philip I eidy. 



24 

who in 1747 largely aided in establishing the Reformed Church in 
America. 

Comrade Yohn was among the youngest of soldiers in the 
Union Army, serving five years in Company G, First United States 
Cavalry, participating in every battle with his regiment under 
Generals Pleasonton, Buford and Sheridan — the last two years of 
his enlistment was served in Arizona hunting and fighting the 
Apaches. 

His discharge from the army bears the following indorsement 
from his commanding officer: '' A faithful and brave soldier and an 
intelligent non-commissioned officer. ' ' 

He has been for sixteen years an active and energetic worker 
in the Grand Army of the Republic, a Past-Commander of Post 51 ; 
member of the Department Council of Administration ; Secretary 
of the Grand Army Association of Philadelphia ; Assistant Adjutant- 
General of the Department of Pennsylvania, and since i8go Cashier 
of the Bureau of Water of Philadelphia. 




The first Post in the State of Pennsylvania, Post 
No. I, of Philadelphia, was chartered by Major B. F. 
Stephenson, Commander-in-Chief, October 16, 1866. 
Colonel Clayton McMichael was chosen Post Com- 
mander, October 17, 1866. Post No. 2 was organized 
October 29, 1866, Colonel S, B. Wylie Mitchell, commander; Post 
No. 5, November 7, Colonel R. B. Beath, commander; Post No. 6, 
November 16, General Louis Wagner, commander; Post No. 7, No- 
vember 17, Colonel Jacob M. Davis, commander, and Post No. 8, 
November 20, Captain Nicholas Baggs, commander. Post No. 3 
was organized at Pittsburg, November 3, 1866, General A. L. 
Pearson, commander. 

G^'ueral Louis Wagner, of Philadelphia, was appointed Proxi- 
sional Commander of the Department, November 22, 1866, 
and immediately entered on the work of organizing Posts 
througliout the State, meeting with remarkable success. From 
the first National Hncampment, at Indianapolis in No\-ember, 
1866, the Department of Pennsylvania has, without exception, 
leen efficiently represented in each National Hncampment, and its 



25 

importance in, and work for, the organization lias been constantly 
recognized. 

The Grand Army of the Republic has chosen from Pennsyl- 
vania four commanders-in-chief: General John F. Hartranft, May 
12, 1875, re-elected •'"> 1876; General Louis Wagner, June 8, 1880; 
Colonel Robert B. Beath, July 25, 1883, and General John P. S. 
Gobin, September, 1897. 

Many other important oftkes in the National Encampment have 
been filled by comrades from Pennsylvania. 

Early in its history the Department gave earnest attention to 
the extension and improvement of the Soldiers' Orphan Schools, 
and it was on its recommendation that the Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Home at Erie was established by the State. 

These institutions are under the supervision and control of 
trustees, the majority of whom are members of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, and are so well managed as always to receive the 
heartiest commendation of the State authorities, and the approbation 
of the public. 

In 1895 the city of Philadelphia, by ordinance of Councils, 
gave the free use of the building at southwest corner Fifth and 
Chestnut streets for headquarters of the Department. 

The following have been the Department Commanders: 



1866-6 


7 . . Louis Wagner .... 


. . Philadelphia. 


1868 


. . A. Iv. Pearson . . 


. . Pittsburg. 


1869 


. . 0. C. Bosbyshell .... 


. . Pottsville. 


1870 


A. R. Calhoun . . 


. . Philadelphia. 


1871 


. . * Howard T. Reeder . 


. . Easton. 


1872 


. Frank Reeder 


. . Easton. 


1873 


. . Robert B. Beath 


. . Pottsville. 


1874 


. . * A. Wilson Norris . . . 


. . Philadelphia. 


1875 


. . W. W. Tyson 


Pittsburg. 


1876 


. . James W. Latta .... 


Philadelphia. 


1877 


. . S. Irvin Givin . . 


. . Philadelphia. 


1878 


. Charles T. Hull . . . 


. . Athens, Bradford Co. 


1879 


. . George L. Brown . . . 


. . Minersville, Schuylkill Co 


i88(j 


. , Chill W. Hazzard . 


. . Monongahela City. 


i88r 


. . *John Taylor .... 


. . Philadelphia. 


1882 


John M. Vanderslice . . 


. Philadelphia. 


1883 


. . B. S. O-sborne 


. Wilkesbarre. 


1884 


F. H. Dyer 


. . Washington. 


♦Deceas 


:d. 





26 



1 885 
1886 
1887 
1888 
1889 
1S90 
1891 
1892 

1893 
1894 

'895 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 



Austin Curtin Bellefonte. 

J. P. S- Gobin Lebanon. 

* Samuel Harper Pittsburg. 

* Frank T. Magee Wrightsville, York Co. 

Thomas J. Stewart Norristown. 

* Joseph F. Denniston .... Pittsburg. 
George G. Boyer Harrisburg. 

John P. Taylor Reedsville, Juniata Co. 

Thomas G. Sample Allegheny City. 

William Emsley Philadelphia. 

H. H. Cumings Tidioute, Crawford Co. 

Alfred Darte Wilkesbarre. 

William D. StaufFer .... Lancaster. 

W. J. Patterson Pittsburg. 

James F. Morrison Philadelphia. 



The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 

States. 

BY Major Richard S. Collum, 

United States Marine Corps. 

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion dates its conception 
from that memorable day in the history of the Civil War, when the 
civilized world was shocked and appalled by the dreadful news of 
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which reached Philadelphia 
late on the evening of the fourteenth of April, i86q. 

On the fifteenth. Colonel S. B. Wylie Mitchell, Lieutenant- 
Colonel T. Ell wood Zell and Captain P. D. Keyser, M. D., met in 
the office of Colonel Zell, on Sixth street, near Chestnut. The 
propriety of some action in behalf of those officers of the arm}- and 
navy then in Philadelphia, and the organization of an association to 
perpetuate the recollections of the day and of the war, were dis- 
cussed, and it was determined to issue a call for a meeting, which 
was held on April 20. At this and subsequent meetings arrange- 
ments were made for participating in the obsequies of the late Pres- 
ident, and a committee was appointed to organize a permanent 
association; this, tlien, the fifteenth of April, 1865, may be said to 
have been the birth of tiie Order. 



* Deceased. 



27 

The principles and objects of tlie Order are as follows: 

First — A firm belief and trust in Almighty God, extolling Him 
under whose munificent guidance the sovereignty and integrity of 
the Union have been maintained, the honor of the flag vindicated 
and blessings of civil liberty secured, established and enlarged. 

Second — True allegiance to the United States of America, based 
upon permanent respect for, and fidelity to, the National Constitu- 
tion and laws, manifested by discountenancing whatever may tend 
to weaken loyalty, incite to insurrection, treason or rebellion, or 
impair in any manner the efficiency and permanency of the free 
institutions. 

The objects of this Order shall be: 

To cherish the memories and associations of the war waged in 
defence of the unity and indivisibility of the Republic, strengthen 
the ties of fraternal fellowship and sympathy formed by companions 
in arms, advance the best interests of the soldiers and sailors of the 
United States, especially of those associated as companions of this 
Order, and extend all possible relief to their widows and children; 
foster the cultivation of military and naval science; enforce unqual- 
ified allegiance to the General Government; protect the rights and 
liberties of American citizenship and maintain national honor, union 
and independence. 

The separate organizations in each State are termed Com- 
manderies and their meetings are rendered the more interesting 
from the fact that carefully prepared papers upon subjects connected 
with the war are read and commented upon and carefully preserved 
in the archives Thus the Military Order of the Loyal Legion is 
gathering interesting details of the operations of the Union forces 
from all parts of the United States, and discussing with deliberative 
and calm judgment all that occurred during the four years of the 
Civil War. These papers are often prepared by those who were 
active participants in important ^events, by those most competent 
from experience and education to record them with exactitude and 
fidelity. The historian of the future will find preserved for gener- 
alization of dissection a mass of valuable information by means of 
which the disputed questions which have arisen on either side can 
be justly determined. 

The Order is to-day composed of twenty Commanderies. 



28 

Offic^.rs of tlie Commandery -in-Chief. 

Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, Commander-in-Chief; Bri 
gadier-General Selden Connor, Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief 
Major-General John R. Brooke, Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief 
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John P. Nicholson, Recorder-in-Chief 
Brevet Major William P. Huxford, Registrar-in-Chief ; Brevet 
Colonel Cornelius Cadle, Treasurer-in-Chief ; Chaplain Henry 
Hopkins, D. D., Chaplain-in-Chief ; Brevet Brigadier-General J. 
Marshall Brown, Colonel Arnold A. Rand, Brevet Major George W. 
Chandler,* General Nelson Cole, Council-in-Chief. 

National Association of Naval Veterans of the 
United States. 

BY William Simmons, 

Historian of the Organisation. 

The first suggestion for the formation of a National Association 
appeared in the National Tribune, of Washington, D. C, in June, 
1886 in a communication from Mr. William Simmons of Philadelphia. 
It met with a favorable response. 

The " Farragut Association of the West" sent out a letter under 
date of October 12, 1886, recornmending each Naval Veteran Asso- 
ciation throughout the country to appoint a committee of three to 
meet during the winter at some central point, to consider the advisa- 
bility of forming a National Association of Naval Veterans. 

A convention was held in New York City, on January 13, 
1887, with delegates present from New York, New Jersey, Penn- 
sylvania, Connecticut, Illinois and Wisconsin. 

The Association then represented by duly authorized delegates 
were: The Farragut Naval Association of Philadelphia, Farragut 
Naval Association of New York, Naval Veteran Association of Con- 
necticut, and Farragut Veteran Association of the West, located at 
Chicago. 

The following officers were elected: 

Commodore, Charles W. Adams, Illinois; Commander, Charles 
A, Stillman, Connecticut; Paymaster, F. H. Grove, New York; 

* I)ii.-il July ,il , 1^199. 



29 



Surgeon, J. D. Murray, New Jersey; Secretary, William Simmons, 
Pennsylvania; Assistant Secretary, Walter M. Chester, Illinois. 

The name adopted is the "National Association of Naval 
Veterans " and the following Declaration of Principles shows the 
objects of the organization and who are eligible to membership: 

:st. A firm belief and trust in Almighty God. 

2d. True allegiance to the United States of America, based upon par- 
amount respect for, and fidelity to, the Constitution and laws. 

3d. The development of the 
United States Navy. 

4th. To discountenance whatever 
may tend to weaken loyalty, excite in- 
surrection, treason or rebellion. 

The object of this association, as 
defined in its constitution, shall be to 
cherish the memory and associations 
of the War of the late Rebellion; per- 
petuate the glorious name and deeds 
of our navy; to strengthen the ties of 
fraternal fellow.ship and sympathy; to 
advance its best interests and to extend 
all possible relief to the widows and 
children of members; to further the 
cultivation of naval science; to enforce 
unqualified allegiance to the general 
government; to protect the rights and 
liberties of American citizenship, and 
to maintain national honor, union and 
independence. 

Any officer or enlisted man, who 
has served in the United States Navy, 
Marine Corps or Revenue Marine ser- 
vice, during any portion of the time 
from April 12, 1861, to August 25, 1865, 
who has not borne arms against the 
United States, or been convicted of 
any infamous crime, still in the ser- 
vice, or who has been honorably discharged, or resigned therefrom by an 
honorable acceptance of resignation, is eligible to membership in this asso- 
ciation. 

Recognition of Naval l^eierans by ilie G. A. R. 

A general reunion of naval veterans was held in connection 
with the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic 




% 



J I'. K. l-DSS. 



30 

at Columbus, Ohio, September, 1888, and they formed a division 
in the parade and attracted considerable attention. They had sev- 
eral large models of gun-boats and monitors, with crews in naval 
suits. Bombs were fired at frequent intervals from mortars on the 
boats. 

The same plan of parade was adopted at the Boston Encamp- 
ment in 1890. 

At Columbus it was decided to present the name of Comrade 
Joseph Hadfield, a naval veteran [of New York, for the position of 
Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R. , and he was then 
elected. 

The growth of the organization will be shown by the number of 
local associations at this time: 



official No. Name of Association. Headquarters. Date of Organization. 

1. Farragut xA.ssociation Philadelphia, Pa. . August 5, 1867. 

2. Farragut Association New York . . . . November 15, 1883. 

3. Gideon Welles Assn. of Conn. Hartford, Conn. . June 18, 1884. 

4. Farragut Association Chicago, 111. . . . June 25, 1884. 

5. Essex Association Salem, Mass. . . February 26, 1887. 

6. Cushing Association Milwaukee, Wis. . June 4, 1888. 

7. Naval Association of the Gulf . New Orleans, La . September i, 1S88. 

8. Minnesota Association .... St. Paul, Minn. . April 15, 1889. 

9. D. D. Porter Association . . . Columbus, Ohio . July 20, 1889. 

10. Admiral Dahlgren Assn. . . . Dayton, Ohio . . October 19, 1889. 

11. Farragut Association Providence, R. I. . October 19, 1889. 

12. D. D. Porter Association . . . Louisville, Ky. . . March 2, 1890. 

13. Naval Veteran Association . . Cincinnati, Ohio . October 15, 1890. 

14. Maryland Association .... Baltimore, Md. . . January, 1891. 

15. Naval Vet. Assn. of Illinois . Chicago, 111. . . . February 14, 1891. 

16. Shirk Association ...... Erie, Pa March 12, 1891. 

17. Admiral Dupont Association . Fort Worth, Texas March 21, 1891. 

18. T. A. Budd Association . . . Buffalo, N. Y. . . April 29, 1891. 

19. Potomac Association Washington, D. C. November iS, 1891. 

20. Cumberland Association . . . New Bedford, Mass. December, 1891. 

21. Central New York Assn. . . . Amsterdam, N. Y. December 18, 1891. 

22. Commodore Perr}' Assn. . . .Cleveland, Ohio .January 11, 1892. 

23. Michigan Association . . . . Detroit, Mich. . .January 11, 1892. 

24. Herrick Blue Association . . Zanesville, Ohio . June 16, 1892. 

25. Monitor Association Brooklyn, N. Y. . August 4, 1892. 

26. Kearsarge Association .... Portsmouth, N. H. Chartered Jan. 2, 1893. 

27. Black Hawk Association . . . Indianapolis, Ind. Chartered Jan. 16, 1893. 

28. Dahlgren .Association .... Lowell, ^lass. . . Chartered Feb. 13, 1893. 

29. Kennebec Association .... Bath, Me Chartered Mar. 14, 1893. 



31 

Official No. Name of Association. Headquarters. Date of Organization. 

30. Admiral S. C. Rowan Assn. . Annapolis, Md. ..Chartered Oct. 27, 1S93. 

31. Farragnt Association Boston, Mass. . . Chartered Nov, 22, 1893. 

32. Philadelphia Nav. Vet. Assn. . Philadelphia, Pa . Chartered Jan. 20. 1894. 

33. Admiral Winslow Assn. . . . Pittsburg, Pa . . Chartered April 10, 1894. 

34. Rock River Nav. Vet. Assn. . Rockford, 111. . . Chartered May 15, 1S94. 

35. Lake Superior Nav. Vet. Assn. Marquette, Mich . Chartered Oct. 19, 1894. 

36. Commodore Hopkins N.V.A. . Santa Monica, Cal. Chartered Oct. 24, 1894. 

37. S. C. Rovpan Assn. Nav. Vet. . Portsmouth, Va. . Chartered Dec. 22, 1894. 

38. Admiral Foote Nav. Vet. Assn. St. Louis, Mo. . . Chartered Sept. i, 1895. 

39. Admiral Boggs Nav. Vet. Assn. Newark, N.J. . . Chartered Oct. 22, 1895. 

40. Kearsarge Assn. Nav. Vet. . . Boston, Mass. . . December 7, 1887. 

41. Naval Veteran Legion .... Philadelphia, Pa . November, 1890. 

42. Thornton Assn. Nav. Vet. . . Manchester, N. H. May, 1896. 



Conventions Held, Time and Place of Meeting and Names of Senior 

Officers Elected. 



The First Convention was held in New York in January, i' 
C. W. Adams, of Chicago, was elected Senior Officer. 

The Second Convention was held in Philadelphia in January, 

1888. Joseph Hadfield, of New York, was elected Senior Officer. 
The Third Convention was held at Columbus, Ohio, in Sep- 
tember, 1888. No election was held. 

The Fourth Convention was held at Milwaukee, Wis., August 

1889. Symmes E. Browne, of Columbus, O., was elected Senior 
Officer. 

The Fifth Convention was held at Boston, Mass., August, 1890. 
W. S. Wells, of New Haven, Conn., was elected Senior Officer. 

The Sixth Convention was held at Detroit, Mich., August, 1891. 
W. S. Wells, of New Haven, Conn., was re-elected Senior Officer. 

The Seventh Convention was held at Baltimore, Md., Septem- 
ber, 1892. B. S. Osbon, of New York, was elected Senior Officer. 

The Eighth Convention was held at Indianapolis, hid., Septem- 
ber, 1893. B. S. Osbon, of New York, was re-elected Senior 
Officer. 

The Ninth Convention was held at Pittsburg, Pa., September, 

1894. F. B. Allen, of Hartford, Conn., was elected Senior Officer. 
The Tenth Convention was held at Louisville, Ky., September, 

1895. Rev. Samuel Alman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was elected Senior 
Officer. 



32 

The Eleventh Convention was held at New York City, July, 

1896. Cyrus Sears, of Baltimore, Md., was elected Senior Officer. 
The Twelfth Convention was held at Buffalo, N. Y., August, 

1897. Daniel F. Kelley, of Philadelphia, Pa., was elected Senior 
Ofifker. 

The Thirteenth Convention was held at Cincinnati, O. , Sep- 
tember, 1898. J. F. R. Foss, of Minneapolis, Minn., was elected 
Senior Officer. 

The Fourteenth Convention will be held in Philadelphia during 
the G. A. R. Encampment, September, 1899. All the Senior Officers 
are still living and members of the Grand Army. 

Roster of Officers, i8gg, Naiional Association Naval Veterans, 

U. S. of A. 

J. F. R. Foss, Rear Admiral Commanding, Minneapolis, Minn 
Edward Bliss, Fleet Commodore, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
William E. Larzelere, Fleet Captain, Zanesville, O. 
Benjamin D. Blanchard, Fleet Commander, New York City. 
James A. Miller, Fleet Lieutenant-Commander, Athens, O. 
William Mchitosh, Fleet Lieutenant, New York City. 
Walter E. Jacobs, Fleet Master, New Haven, Conn. 
James Kennedy, Fleet Ensign, Portsmouth, Va. 
J. L. Cilley, M. D. , Fleet Surgeon, Cincinnati, O. 

E. F. Dustin, Fleet Paymaster, Providence, R. I. 

F. V. Christian, Fleet Engineer, Chicago, 111. 

A. S. McWilliams, Fleet Chaplain, Detroit, Mich. 
F. C. Harvey, Fleet Judge Advocate, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Edward Wiggins, Fleet Boatswain, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
William Simmons, Fleet Historian, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Frederick E. Haskins, Fleet Secretary, Brooklyn, N. ^'. 

First Naval Post of the G. A. R. 

To the Department of Pennsylvania belongs the honor of issuing 
a charter to the first Grand Army Post composed exclusively of 
veterans who served in the navy during the rebellion. 

Thirty-seven members signed the application for a charter and 
Naval Post was assigned No. 400 in numerical order in the Depart- 
ment. 



33 

The Post was organized on the twelfth day of December, 1883. 
Comrade John Stewart acted as Mustering Officer, and the fol- 
lowing named were the first officers chosen: Commander, W. J. 
Ferguson; Senior Vice-Commander, William Roberts; Junior Vice- 
Commander, L. J. Vosburg; Chaplain, VV. M. Bartram; Adjutant, 
John F. Mackie; Trustees, William Simmons, Peter Peterson and 
W. G. Lowe. 

Commander Ferguson had been thirty-one years in the United 
States service. 

The Post room in Industrial Hall, on Broad Street above Vine, 
will be the general head-quarters for naval veterans, during the 
Encampment. 

Past Post Commanders in order of service are: Wm. J. Fer- 
guson, Wm. M. Bartram, John F. iV\ackie, J. A. Connolly, William 
Simmons, Henry McGinniss, J. V. Home, J. E. Boyle. H. B. Devitt, 
Frank Robinson, J. R. Pedrick, M. Quigley, John Sproule, Thomas 
Farnan and H. B. Myers. 

' Sons of Veterans U. S. a. 

Past Post Commander David Knapp, of Anna M. Ross Post, No. 
94, of Philadelphia, Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., was the 
originator of this Order. He organized, on April 24, 1879, the Anna 
M. Ross Cadet Corps, No. i. This action was quickly followed b\' 
Captain Philip R. Schuyler Post, No. 51; General U. S. Grant 
Post, No. 5; Ulric Dahlgren Post, No. 14, and General John F. 
Reynolds Post, No. 71, all of Philadelphia, and Yeager Post, No. 13, 
of Allentown, Pa., who organized their Cadet Corps with material 
drawn from the sons of those eligible to the G. A. R. 

This idea spread throughout the Eastern States, and a perma- 
nent organization was effected in Allentown, Pa., in 1881. Officers 
were elected and laws adopted. A ritual was also compiled by Cap- 
tain John Taylor, of Captain Philip R. Schuyler Post, No. 51, and 
the name was changed from Cadet Corps to Camps. Shortly after 
this a national organization was formed and William Cope, of Phil- 
adelphia, was elected Commander-in-Chief. Dissensions soon 
arose, and in February, 1883, a large portion of the Pennsylvania 
Division withdrew and organized the Eastern Pennsylvania Di\'i- 
sion. 




FRANK I,. Sin;PARD. 
Coinmaiider-iii-Chief, Sons of Veterans 



35 

The present organization of Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., was 
formed in Pittsburg, Pa., in November, 1881, by Major C. P. Davis, 
who died May 21, 1899. Colonel H. T. Rawley became the first 
Provisional Commander-in-Chief. Soon after this the Camps in 
Massachusetts became allied with those of the national organization, 
with a large percentage of the Eastern Division of Pennsylvania. 
At the first National Encampment of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., 
the United States was divided into five Grand Divisions, each 
maintaining separate headquarters with their respective com- 
manders. This plan was discontinued by the Fourth Annual 
Encampment of the Commandery-in-Chief, held in Grand Rapids, 
Mich., in 1885. The present membership is about 57,000. Its 
objects are : 

1. To keep green the memories of our fathers and their sacri- 
fices for the maintenance of the Union. 

2. To aid the members of the Grand Army of the Republic and 
all honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors and marines in 
caring for their helpless and disabled veterans; to extend aid and 
protection to their widows and orphans; to perpetuate the memory 
and history of their heroic dead, and the proper observance of 
Memorial Day and Union Defenders' Day. 

3. To inculcate patriotism and love of country, not only among 
our membership, but among all the people of our land, and to spread 
and sustain the doctrine of equal rights, univeirsal liberty and 
justice to all. 



Officers of iJie Commandery-in-Cldef. 

Frank L. Shepard, Commander-in-Chief, Chicago, ill. ; George 
E. Cox, Senior Vice-Commander- in-Chief, Hartford, Conn. ; Z. C. 
Green, Junior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, White, S. D. ; G. B. 
Abbott, Adjutant-General, Chicago, 111. ; Frederick E. Bolton, 
Quartermaster-General, Boston, Mass.; F. W. Briggs, Inspector- 
General, Shickshinny, Pa. ; James W. Noel, Judge Advocate-Gen- 
eral, Indianapolis, Ind. ; F. H. B. McDowell, M. D., Surgeon-General, 
Racine, Wis. ; Rev. A. J. Morris, Chaplain-in-Chief, South Frank- 
ford, Mich. ; H. H. Hammer, Reading, Pa. ; J. E. Haycraft, Madelia, 
Minn., and J. D. Rowen, Des Moines, la., Council-in-Chief. 



SONS OF VETERANS' REGIMENT 



'HR Sons of Veterans' Regiment was recruited from the armed >;nard of 
the Sons of Veterans' Camps of Pennsylvania at the ouibreak of the late 
war with Spain, and was the first volunteer command to offer its services 
to the State and National Government. The regiment was fully equipped, 
uniformed and armed. The command numbered 1200 men and was 
known as the Twenty-second Pennsylvania Infantry. Henry Douglas Hughes, 
a descendant of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the signers of the Decla- 
ration of Independence, and we 1 known in the financial, social, military and 
political circles of Philadelphia, was unanimoush^ elected Colonel of the regi- 
ment. The command 
went into camp, and 
when the war was at 
its height Colonel 
Hughes had official 
notice to have the regi- 
ment ready for instant 
service. In July, 1898, 
the regiment was offi- 
cially inspected by 
Major General George 
R. Snowden and Brig- 
adier-General Edward 
Morrell, preparatory 
to its reception into 
the National Guard of 
Pennsylvania. Upon 
a vote of the officers, 
however, the regiment 
declined the proffered 
honor, as it was a war 
organization only. It 
is worthy of note that 
at this period the 
Twejity second Regi 
meut, Sons of Veter- 
ans, was the only body 
of troops in Pennsyl- 
vania fully armed, uni- 
formed and equipped 
prepared to answer a 
call to i-uppress domes- 
tic violence or foreign 
invasion. 

On the day of the 
great military parade, 
Philadelphia's Peace 
Jubilee, no regiment 
in line received more 
favorable c o m m e n t 
than this splendid 
body of men. ])icked 
from the very flower of Pennsylvania's youth, who-;e fatheis liad liorne honorable 
and conspicuous part in the great Civil War. The fine appearance and marching 
of the men was highly praised by President INL-ICmley, Mdjor-General Nelson 
A. Miles, and other prominent officers of the United States Army. After thf 
Peace Jubilee parade the command was mustered out as the Twenty second 
Infantry, and is now known as the I'irst kegiment, Sons of Veterans. This 
organization has been invited by the Coniniiitee of the Thirty-third Annual 
Encampment of the (irand Army of the Republic to guanl Camp Sexton, and 
to participate in the great parade of tlie Grand .\rmy September 5 The regi- 
ment will i)e camped on the plateau facing Belmont Mansion, Fairinount Park, 
during the week of the National l^noampment. The regiment will have in 
camp 700 men, and will be under command of Colonel Henry Douglas Hughes. 




COL. HENhY DOUGLAS HUGHES 



37 




The Woman's Relief Corps. 

The National Woman's Relief Corps was organized 
in Denver, Colorado, August, 1883, in response to an 
inx'itation sent out by Paul Van Dervoort, then Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
The first resolutions looking to the organization of the 
auxiliary society were adopted unanimously by the 
Fifteenth Annual Encampment and were as follows: 

Resolved, That we approve of the project of organiz- 
ing a National Woman's Relief Corps. 

Resolved, That such Woman's Relief Corps may use, 
under such title, the words— " Auxiliary to the Grand 
Army of the Republic." 

The Woman's Relief Corps took for its foundation- 
Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty. The Fraternity that means 
something, the Charity which helps the needy, not letting the left 
hand know what the right hand is doing, and the Loyalty which 
gives to our nation the dearest and best of her hearts loved ones. 

Realizing that to some loyal, true hearts the accident of birth or 
marriage might be a barrier in the work of caring for the veteran and 
his dep^endent ones, the W. R. C. opened its doors and admitted to 
its ranks all loyal women who had not given aid or comfort to the 
enemies of the Government. Many doubted the wisdom of this 
action, but true to the magnificent spirit which called it into 
existence, the Woman's Relief Corps believed that as many loyal 
hearts and hands not related to the comrade, ministered to the 
soldiers and their loved ones in time of war, so in peace the doors'of 
the Order should be opened and our loyal friends invited to join in 
our labors. This action has never been regretted. 

From a membership of about fifty at the organization we have 
increased until we now number 150,000. From an empty treasury 
in 1883, we have grown financially until we have expended up to 
the thirty-first of March, 1899, $1,586,354-18. We feel we have 
done a creditable work. Of the 150,000 members all but 20,oco 
are relatives of soldiers. These twenty thousand members repre- 
sent the unselfish devotion of the loyal women of our country 
toward our country's defenders. The W. R. C. has expended S126,- 
000 for the " bovsof '98," besides the hundreds of boxes of supplies 



3« 



not valued in money. Legislation affecting the Order as a whole, is 
through the National Convention which meets at the same time and 
place as the Grand Army, and is promulgated through general 
orders. Legislation pertaining to States is transacted in Department 
Conventions. 

it supports a National Relief Corps Home for wives and mothers 
of soldiers and dependent army nurses. It has been the means of 

establishing homes in Illinois, 
California, Michigan, Wiscon- 
sin, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, 
New York, Pennsylvania, 
Maine and Kansas. It secured 
the legislation that provides 
government aid to the desti- 
tute army nurses, and that 
established industrial training 
for girls at the Ohio Orphans' 
Home. 

It has secured a united 
movement for patriotic teach- 
ing and a flag on every school 
house. It has assisted materi- 
ally in providing flags for graves 
in cemeteries in the South. 
There are 3,223 corps. Every 
State in the Union, except one, 
has within its borders one or 
more Woman's Relief Corps. 
Every territory and the Dis- 
trict of Columbia also has its 
organization. Montreal has its 
corps attached to the Depart- 
ment of Vermont, and Alaska attached to Washington. The seeds 
have been sowed broadcast and the harvest is yielding bountifully. 
Steps have been taken looking to the organization in Honolulu 
and Mexico and the prospect is indeed flattering. 

Membership does not entitle one to benefits. Our organization 
is essentially a charitable one, and the only funds allowed are the 
general and relief funds, the latter to be held sacred to aid the 




FI.O JAMISON MILLER. 



39 

Union Veterans and his dependent ones. The officers for the year 
of '98 and '99 are: 

National President, Flo Jamison Miller, Monticello, 111. 

National Senior Vice-President, Mary C. Wentzel, Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

National Junior Vice-President, Ellen F. Daniels, Charleston, 
West Va. 

National Secretary, Mattie Jamison Tippett, Monticello, III. 

National Treasurer, Isabelle T. Bagley, Zanesville, Ohio. 

National Chaplain, Mary A. Lull, Millford, N. H. 

National Inspector, Mary G. Deane, Fall River, Mass. 

National Counsellor, Emma R. Wallace, Chicago, 111. 
^ National Instituting and Installing Officer, Charlotte J. Cum- 
ings, Tidioute, Pa. 

National Patriotic Instructor, Mary E. Hartwell, Los Angeles, 
Cal. 

Woman's Relief Corps, Department of Pennsylvania. 

The Department of Pennsylvania's Woman's Relief Corps has 
nobly taken its place in the foremost ranks of faithful workers for 
the veterans of 1861 to 1865. Numbering four thousand and ten 
members (4,010), they have done and are doing a grand relief work. 

During those heartrending days of the Johnstown flood, our 
department president was early on the scene of the disaster, and 
she rendered most efficient and valuable service. She received and 
disbursed to the Johnstown flood sufferers a total of two thousand 
six hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-five cents ($2,643.55). 
Of this amount the Corps of Pennsylvania contributed six hundred 
dollars ($600), beside the countless boxes and barrels of clothing 
and supplies forwarded, helping at the same time most liberally 
those suffering from a like disaster at Lock Haven, Pa. It was dur- 
ing this year that the founding and organization of the Woman's 
Relief Corps, Pennsylvania Memorial Home, was perfected, although 
the dedication and formal opening of the institution did not occur 
until January, 1890. 

Although Homes have been provided by the Government and 
the States for the veterans and their orphans, no Home had been 



40 

provided for the wife and mother; for the widows of deceased 
veterans, nor for the wives and children of the indigent, nor the 
permanently disabled veteran with his wife and children. It had 
for a long time been patent to all careful thinkers that some pro- 
\ision must be made in the near future looking forward to the care 
and maintenance of the indigent veteran and wife, the widows of 
veterans and army nurses. There was scarcely a week passed with- 
out bringing to the officers in charge some appeal for help and assis- 
tance from some of the above mentioned classes. The Woman's 
Relief Corps recognizing this necessity, at the Department Con- 
vention held in Erie, February, 1889, presented a resolution looking 
forward to the establishment of a Home. The resolution was unan- 
imously endorsed by the convention, the delegates one and all 
pledging themselves to work, as never before, until the project was 
carried to a successful issue. The result was the establishment of 
the '.'Pennsylvania Memorial Home," the first of its kind in the 
world, where the veteran and his wife can spend together the few 
remaining years of their lives. The Home is located at Brookville, 
Jefferson County, Pa. It was formerly known as "Longview, " a 
summer resort, it was purchased with all its belongings and appur- 
tenances for the sum of $30,000, of which amount all except twenty- 
three hundred dollars ($2,300) has been paid. Of this amount 
fourteen hundred dollars was pledsjied at the last Department Con- 
vention, held at Wilkesbarre, Pa., in June, 1899. The building is of 
brick, 70 by 104 feet. One-half is three stories and the other half 
is two stories in height. It stands on a plot containing four acres 
of ground and is surrounded by beautiful trees and shrubbery. " The 
liouse is well furnished throughout. Many of the rooms have been 
refitted by different corps in the Department. There are in all, 
beside the kitchens, dining-room, parlors, school-room, office and 
living rooms, fifty sleeping rooms in the building. During the nine 
years of its existence there has been an average of fifty inmates 
maintained there largely by voluntary contributions from the corps 
in the Department and a moderate appropriation from the Common- 
wealth. In connection with the Home there is a good school, con- 
ducted by a thoroughly competent teacher. 

The management of the Home is in the hands of a board of 
ele\'en directors ; nine of these are elected annually at the associ- 
ation meeting held at the same time and place as the W. R. C. 



41 

Department Comention. The other two members are the Depart- 
ment Commander, G. A. R. and the Department President W. R. C. 
these acting as ex-officio members of the board. The Department 
has expended for relief since its organization $96,000. 



Ladies of the Grand Ar.m> of the Republic. 



This organization is l<nown as the Ladies ct the Grand Arm\- of 
the Republic, and is composed 
of a National body, with depart- 
ments in nearly every State, 
having a total membership of 
nearly twenty-five thousand. 
It is thoroughly independent in 
its existence, thereby permit- 
ting any so<:iety of \'eterans to 
accept aid, without imposing 
upon them any responsibility 
which would follow were it 
auxiliary to any organization. 

The first Circle was organ- 
ized in Chicago, January 12, 
1886, with about forty charter 
members, and on November 
18, 1886, the ladies of the 
Loyal League of New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania and California 
met in Chicago with the Ladies 
of the G. A. R. and formed a 
National Organization, they, 
accepting the name and ritual 
of the Ladies of the G. A. R., 
and we, in turn, accepting the badge of the Ladies of the Loyal 
League. The objects of this "Order" are to unite in fraternal 
bond and keep alive in the hearts of the people remembrance of 
the brave and unselfish service given by those men at the time of 
greatest peril, and to perform such work of assistance and charitable 
actions, toward soldiers or their families in distress as circumstances 




MRS. AGNES J. W I.N SLOW. 



42 

may require, and to promote by every means possible loyalty to 
our country's flag. One of our sacred duties is to place a silk- 
flag on the breast of all deceased comrades, as it is the last respect 
we can show the brave veterans of '6i-'65. 

The following is a list of the National Ofificers for 1899: 

National President, Mrs. Agnes J. Winslow, Chicago, ill. 

National Secretary, Miss Anna M. Escher, Chicago, ill. 

National Treasurer, Mrs. Etta Tobey, Logansport, Indiana. 

National Councellor, Mrs. Flora M. Davey, Duluth, Minn. 

National Senior Vice-President, Mrs. Maria P. Cahoon, Elyria,0. 

National Junior Vice-President, Mrs. Pauline Willis, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

National Chaplain, Mrs, Margaret Stevens, Newark, N. J. 

Council of Administration, Annie L. Lincoln, Duluth, Minn.; 
Emma Wall, Lawrence, Kan., and Aurilla E. Sherman, Keokuk, Iowa. 

National Inspector, Mrs. Julia P. Shade, Philadelphia, Pa. 

National Press Correspondents, Mrs. Elmira T. Springer, 
Chicago, III.; Mrs. Henrietta Gerwig, Allegheny, Pa., and Mrs. 
Minnie L. Roberts, Jennings, La. 



Ladies of the G. a. R., Department of Pennsylvania. 



. "tJ^ i ^^^^S i ^?*^ 



The first convention under the name of Ladies' 
Loyal League was held at Altoona, August 27 and 28, 
1884. 

The Ladies of the G. A. R., Department of Penn- 
sylvania, held their first convention in Altoona in 
1884, and was known then as the Ladies' Loyal 
League, in October of 1887 at a convention held at 
Harrisburg, their name was changed to the title of 
Ladies of the G. A. R., and held their first convention 
under this title in Harrisburg on the above date. At 
that time there were forty-three Circles in the De- 
partment of Pennsylvania, liaving a total membership 
of 1,681. Since that time the Order has made rapid 
progress, both in membership and Circles, being represented in all 
parts of Pennsylvania. At the present time there are 135 Circles; 
total membership, 6,439. The amount of relief expended during the 




43 

year ending June i, 1899, $11,102.42. Given to Posts, $961.61. 
Grand total, $12,063.51. 

The Ladies of tlie G. A. R. consists of the wives, mothers, 
sisters, daughters and grand-daughters of an honorably discharged 
soldier of the Rebellion. The ex-army nurses also are eligible for 
membership. 

The objects of the organization are to relieve the distressed 
families of the veterans, to assist soldiers, widows and orphans. 

This work is done regularly and increasing every year as age 
creeps on, both to the veteran and his family, and is done quietly 
and unassumingly. 

Nearly every State in the Union is represented by a Depart- 
ment, which has a greater or less number of Circles representing 
them. Pennsylvania, however, is the largest Department, having 
the greatest number of Circles and largest membership. In Phila- 
delphia there are sixteen Circles ; Pittsburg, nine, and the other cities 
and towns of the State being represented by one or more Circles. 

Ladies of the G. a. R. 




HOME AT HAWKINS STATION, 1\ R. K. 



The above is a picture of the Ladies of the G. A. R. Home, at 
Hawkins' Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, a few miles out of 



44 

Pittsburg, dedicated on June 26, 1890, to the comfort of the worthy 
mothers, wives, sisters, widows and daughters of veterans of the 
Rebellion. 

The Home is owned by the Ladies of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, Department of Pennsylvania. At present it contains 
forty aged and infirm inmates. 

With the assistance of the Grand Army, Union Veteran Legion, 
Sons of Veterans and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the 
ladies have, for nine years, been enabled to give these unfortunate 
ones comforts, divested of all features of a charitable institution, 
simply a large family of well-bred women inhabiting their own 
homes. 

If crowned with the same success as heretofore, they will soon 
be able to pay off the mortgage of $5,000, which is very small in 
comparison with the amount heretofore expended on this benevolent 
enterprise. 

HO"AE FOR AGED VETERANS AND THEIR WIVES. 

The Home for Aged Veterans and their Wives, Sixty-fifth and 
Vine streets, Philadelphia, is a substantial three-story building con- 
taining twenty-seven rooms, adequate for thirty inmates. The 
property cost about $16,000. It is the result of the work of Mrs. 
Julia P. Shade, M. D., of Philadelphia, Past Department President, 
Ladies of the G. A. R. 

A permanent organization of those interested in the work was 
effected May 9, 1894, and Mrs. Julia P. Shade, M. D., was elected 
president; Mrs. Ada L. Shannon, secretary, and Mrs. Mary G. 
Lawrence, treasurer, and a full board of trustees and managers, 
representing each Circle of the Ladies of the G. A. R., in the city 
and vicinity of Philadelphia. By October i, 1894, contributiiMis 
amounting to $1,000 had been received and paid on account, and 
the property was handed over to the trustees. Up to July i, 1899, 
$5,000 has been paid, leaving an indebtedness of $11,000. The 
sum of $1,500 has been expended in improvement, greatly adding 
to the increased value of the institution. 

This Home was opened for the admission of inmates October 4, 
1894, and formally dedicated December 5, 1894. During the five 




HOME FOR AGED VETERANS AND THEIR WIVES. 



46 

years fifty-two widows, aged veterans and wives, all over sixty 
years of age, have been admitted. During that time three women 
and four men have died. The present Home family consists of a 
steward, a matron and one servant, eleven aged married couples and 
nine other inmates, making a total of thirty-one. 

Except an annual appropriation of $2,500 from the State of 
Pennsylvania, the maintenance of the institution is supported 
entirely by voluntary subscription from friends, comrades and the 
different Circles of the Ladies of the G. A. R. and Posts, Camps U. 
V. L. and Sons of Veterans located in and around the city of Phila- 
delphia, the entire house having been furnished by them. 

The future and present welfare and interest of the Home are 
carefully looked after and guarded by an Advisory Council of com- 
rades, consisting of two delegates from each Post in the city, who 
hold monthly meetings at the Home in conjunction with the Board 
of Managers. The institution is non-sectarian, and divine services 
are held in the Home Chapel every Sunday afternoon at 3.30 
o'clock, and is always well attended. The pulpit is supplied by the 
United Board of Local Clergy and Laymen, and frequently some of 
our most prominent clergymen have officiated at the services. 



Daughters of Veterans. 

The Order of Daughters of Veterans grew out of an organization 
known as the Ruby Seal, a society among the Grammar School girls 
of Massillon, Ohio. On the thirtieth day of May, 1885, five of these 
girls on their return from the cemetery, where they had assisted in 
decorating the soldiers' graves, decided to organize an Order for the 
purpose of assisting the Grand Army on Memorial Day. The 
articles of incorporation were secured the following December. 

In May, 1890, the first National Convention was held, it met 
at Quincy, ill.; the next year at Massillon, Ohio, and since then, 
at the same time and place as the National Encampment of 
the G. A. R. 

The objects of the Order are: To perpetuate tiie memories of 
our fathers and brothers, their loyalty to the union and their 
unselfish sacrifices for the perpetuity of the same, and to keep green 
the memory and history of those who participated in that heroic 



47 

struggle for maintenance of our free government; to aid them and 
their widows and orphans, when helpless and in distress, and to aid 
and assist those in our Order who are worthy and needy ; to incul- 
cate a love of country and patriotism among our sex, to promote 
equal rights and universal liberty, and to acquire by donation or 
otherwise, all necessary property, and funds to carry out the afore- 
said objects; to assist the Grand Army to commemorate the deeds 
of their fallen comrades on the thirtieth of May, until such time 
when it shall devolve on their descendants. 

All daughters of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and 
marines, who served in the Union army or navy during the Rebellion 
of 1861-65, who have attained the age of fifteen years, are eligible 
to membership. Miss Anna M. Clark, of Binghamton, N. Y., is 
the National President. 



The National association of army Nurses of the Civil 
War— 1861-1865. 

Woman has been a prominent factor in all that has pertained to 
the honor, the glory, the advancement of this glorious land of ours> 
and, in those dark days of its peril, she was found at the front from 
1861 to 1865, battling with disease and wounds to save the lives of 
those who were fighting to preserve us as a nation; on the march, 
on the field, in camp and hospital, wherever her services were 
needed, and no eulogy is needed here for her unselfish heroism, for 
it is written on the hearts of her comrades of the Grand Army. 

After the war closed and the nurses were mustered out of ser- 
vice, they scattered to their homes in every part of the country, 
and little was heard of them until that noble woman, who has since 
gone to her reward, Dorothy L. Dix, who had organized them for 
work during the war, called upon them to assemble at the city of 
Washington in 1881. An association was then formed as the "Ex- 
Army Nurse Association," of which Miss Dix was elected president, 
a position she filled until her death, in 1887, when Dr. Susan B. 
Edson, first vice-president, was chosen to till her place. Dr. Edson 
4-esigned soon after, and Miss Harriet P. Dame was called to the 
place, in 1888 the Nurses' Association met with the National G. 
A. R. Encampment at Columbus, Ohio, where their association 



48 

adopted a constitution and by-laws, and re-elected Miss Harriet P. 
Dame, president. The name of the association was changed to the 
National Association of Army Nurses, About twenty were in 
attendance at Columbus, but the interest in the organization waned, 
and for several years nothing was done and no meetings held until 
Mrs. Emily E. Woodley, of Philadelphia, called the nurses together 
at Louisville, Ky., in 1895, and reorganized the association. Mrs. 
Woodley was elected president, a position she was called to fill for 
three years, and during her administration the organization has 
been firmly established. It meets each year with the Grand Army, 
and at Buffalo and Cincinnati has been royally entertained as the 
honored guests of those cities. 

The constitution requires that all members must have served 
either in camp, field or hospital, during the war, and the object is to 
promote a spirit of fraternity by meeting together, and to aid the 
needy ones, procure employment and assist in caring for the infirm 
and destitute. At Cincinnati the words "of the Civil War" were 
added to the name of the association to distinguish its members 
from the nurses of the late war. During the last four years the 
organization has been very prosperous, there being a good attend- 
ance at each meeting, and at the coming encampment a larger 
number than ever before have signified their intention to be present 
to greet once more their "boys" of the sixties. Among these will 
be Mrs. Elmina Spencer, of Oswego, N. Y., who is now in her 
eightieth year, and whose courage and patriotism was such during 
the war that the State of New York has selected her as a type of 
grand, heroic womanhood, whose bust, carved in marble, will adorn 
the grand staircase of the new Capitol, at Albany, and she is only 
one of many. 

While the National Association meets but once a year, some of 
the States have State, organizations, notably among which is the 
Army Nurse Association of Massachusetts, which has fifty-ti\-e 
members. It was chartered in 1896, and since that time has raised 
$5,000 to aid in its work of caring for its needy members, caring 
for them in sickness, paying funeral expenses, etc. 

Mrs. Faniiic' T. Hazen, of Cambridge, is president, And Mrs. 
Margaret Haiiiikon, of Wakefield, secretary of the Massachusetts 
Association. 

The present dftlcers of the association are: President, Elizabeth 



49 

Windle Ewing, PlKeniwillc-, Pa. ; senior \ice-president, Elizabeth 
Chapman, East St. Louis, 111. ; junior vice-president, Delia A. Fay, 
Upper Jay, N. Y. ; secretary, Kate M. Scott, Brookville, Pa, ; chap- 
lain, Jeannette Maxwell Morrill, Lawton, Mich. ; treasurer, Lydia 
L. Whiteman, Philadelphia, Pa. ; corresponding! secretary, Rebecca 
L. Price, Philadelphia, Pa. ; press correspondent, Susanna Krips, 
Philadelphia, Pa. ; guard, Julia McGill, Philadelphia, Pa. ; counselor, 
Emily E. Woodley, Philadelphia, Pa. ; financial secretary, Mary 
Ashton, Philadelphia, Pa. ; installing officer, Fannie Hazen, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. 



General Co.mahttee for the Thirty-third National Encamp- 
ment AND Reunion of the Grand ar.wy 
OF THE Republic. 

GENERAL LOUIS WAGNER. 

General Louis Wagner, chairman of the General Committee, 
was born in Giessen, Germany, August 4, 1838. His parents 
settled in Philadelphia in 1849. In July, 1861, he commenced to 
recruit for the three years service, and was commissioned First 
Lieutenant, Company D, Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
serving under Pope in Virginia, and later with the Army of the 
Potomac. Was promoted Captain, and at the second battle of Bull 
Run was badly wounded and left on the field, being paroled some 
davs later and sent into our lines on account of his disabled condi- 
tion. He was reported in the newspapers as killed in that engage- 
ment. He afterward returned to the regiment as Lieutenant- 
Colonel, and commanded it on the famous "Mud March," and at 
Chancellorsville. He was too badly disabled, however, to continue 
in field service, and was assigned to command Camp William Penn, 
Philadelphia, for the organization of colored troops, where he did 
most effective service in training and sending to tlie front over thir- 
teen thousand colored soldiers. Mustered out as Colonel Eighty- 
eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, July 8, 1865. Brewtted Brigadier- 
General, to date March, 1865. 

After the war he became identified with the "Boys in Blue," 
in the city of Philadelphia, and took an active interest in public 
affairs. He served as president in Common Council from October, 
4 




GENERAL I.OUIS WACNER. 



51 

i869, until Janueiry, 1871, and again in 1872. While in Councils 
he led in the reform movements which placed the affairs of the city 
on a proper business footing. 

He was elected Recorder of Deeds in 1878, for three years, and 
in 1888 was appointed by Mayor Fitler as Director of the Depart- 
ment of Public Works for four years. He is now chairman of the 
Board of Commissioriers of the Sinking Fund of Philadelphia, 
which has charge of the investments for, and payment of, the funded 
debt of the city of Philadelphia. He has been treasurer of the 
Soldiers and Sailors Home of Pennsylvania since its organization ; 
is president of the Masonic Home, and for the past ten years pres- 
ident of the German Society of Pennsylvania. He served as Most 
Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance, of which Order he has 
been a member since 1862. 

Since 1875 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of 
City Trusts, which has under its care all the charitable bequests 
to the city of Philadelphia, the most important of them being the 
Girard College and the Wills Eye Hospital. He has been vice- 
president and is now president of the board. 

He is president of the Third National Bank of Philadelphia and 
a director of the United Firemen's hisurance Company and of the 
City Trust, Surety and Safe Deposit Company. 

Whilst General Wagner has held so many offices of a public 
character, it is proper to say that the only offices he has held with 
pay attached were those of Recorder of Deeds and Director of the 
Department of Public Works. 

In Grand Army work General Wagner has been recognized from 
the first as a leader. He became a charter member of Post 2, 
October, 1866; a charter member and the first commander of Ellis 
Post, No. 6, at Germantown, November 13, 1866. Was appointed 
by General Hurlburt as Provisional Commander for Pennsylvania, 
November 22, 1866, and he was elected as the first Department 
Commander of Pennsylvania, January 16, 1867. During the year 
1867 he organized loi Posts in this State. 

He was elected by the National Encampment in 1870 as Junior 
Vice-Commander-in-Chief, Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief in 
1871 and again in 1872, and Commander-in-Chief, at Dayton, 
Ohio, June 8, li 




COLONEL roi?i:rt h. kf.ath. 



53 

COLONEL ROBERT B. BEATH. 

Colonel Robert B. Beath, secretary of the General Committee, 
was born in Pliiladelphia, January 26, 1839. He enlisted on the 
first call for troops in the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
and was discharged as Sergeant at the end of the three months' 
term. Re-enlisted September 5, 1861, as Sergeant, Company D, 
Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers ; promoted First Sergeant 
and Second Lieutenant. Was slightly wounded at second Bull Run, 
August 30, 1862. Commissioned Captain, Company A, Sixth U. 
S. Colored Troops, July, 1863, and served with the regiment in the 
field in the Army of the James until badlv wounded in the charge 
on New Market Heights, Va., September 29, 1864, which required 
the amputation of his right leg below the knee. When able to leave 
the hospital was assigned to duty at Camp William Penn, Philadel- 
phia, and there remained until able to wear an artificial limb, when, 
in August, 1865, he returned to his regiment in North Carolina and 
was assigned to duty in the Freedman's Bureau at Wilmington. 
Mustered out September 20, 1865. Received commission from the 
War Department as Lieutenant-Colonel, 

He was elected Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania in 1871 for 
three years. 

Was a charter member of Post No. 2, Philadelphia, October 28, 
1866, and charter member and first Commander of Post No. 5, and 
also the first Junior Vice-Commander of the Department of Pennsyl- 
vania. In July, 1867, he removed to Pottsville, Pa., and there 
served two years as Commander of Gowen Post, No. 23. Was four 
years Assistant Adjutant-General of the Department; Department 
Commander in 1873; two years inspector-General of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, under Commander-in-Chief Burnside, and 
three years Adjutant-General under Commanders-in-Chief Hart- 
ranft and Wagner. He was elected Commander-in-Chief at 
Den\er, Julv, 1883. He compiled the first manual for the use of 
the Grand Army, and later compiled the Grand Army Blue Book, 
citing the law and precedents on all points raised in regard to the 
rules and regulations of the Order. In 1881 he was elected as sec- 
retary of the United Firemen's Insurance Company, Philadelphia, 
and became its president in 1892, and is now so serving, is vice- 
president Board of Trustees, Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors 
Home. 



54 

Colonel Beath attended the special session of the National En- 
campment held in New York City, October 27, 1869, and he has not 
missed a single session since that time. 



COLONEL CHARLES M. BETTS. 

Colonel Charles M. Betts, treasurer of the General Commit- 
tee, enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania (Anderson) 

Cavalry in August, 1862,- and 
at the Battle of Antietam, Md., 
in September, 1862, was acting 
Quartermaster of the detach- 
ment of that regiment who par- 
ticipated in the battle. He was 
promoted to First Sergeant, and 
on the reorganization of the regi- 
ment in Nashville, Tenn., in 
March, 1863, was commissioned 
Captain of Company F. He 
was wounded December 10, 
1863, in a fight with the Che- 
rokee Indians near Gatlinsburg, 
East Tenn. The following May 
he was commissioned as Major, 
and at the opening of the cam- 
paign of 1865 was made Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel and given the 
active command of his regiment, 
Colonel William J. Palmer hav- 
ing been promoted to Brevet- 
Brigadier-General. With the 
column of Stoneman he partici- 
pated in the campaigns through the western portion of the 
Carolinas and with his reginu-nt when looking for the trail of 
Jefferson Davis, made an important capture of wagons containing 
:a large amount of money in coin and bank notes, bonds, etc., of 
various Southern States, and about $4,000,000 of Confederate 
money, besides considerable specie, plate and other valuables 
belonging to private citizens in Macon. The wagons also contained 




COI.ONEIv CHARI.KS M. BETTS. 



55 

the private baggage, maps and official papers of Generals Beauregard 
and Pillow. General Palmer recommended Colonel Betts for hon- 
orable mention, and promotion "for gallant conduct in charging and 
capturing a South Carolina battalion of cavalry, with its command- 
ing officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, in front of Greensboro, on 
the morning of April ii, 1865; also for thoroughly preserving the 
discipline of his regiment on an active campaign, during which the 
troops were compelled to live exclusively on the country." For the 
action of Greensboro, N. C, he received a Congressional medal of 
honor. Colonel Betts was mustered out of service with his regi- 
ment, June 21, 1865, and has since been in the wholesale lumber 
business. 

He is a member of the Pennsylvania Commandery Military 
Order Loyal Legion, and served three years in the council of that 
body, and one year as Junior Vice-Commander. He takes an 
active interest in Grand Army matters and is Past Commander of 
Post 2, Philadelphia. He was one of the incorporators of the Lum- 
berman's Exchange, Philadelphia, serving as a director in that 
organization and its president in the year 1890. is ex-president of 
the Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association, and also 
of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association. 

Was elected Commander of the Medal of Honor Legion at the 
convention held at Philadelphia, April 9, 1895, and served until June 
18, 1896, when he was succeeded by Major-General Nelson A. 
Miles, commanding the Armies of the United States. Has served 
as president of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry Association 
since its formation in 1872. 



MURDOCH KENDRICK. 

Murdoch Kencirick, the solicitor of the General Committee, 
was born in Philadelphia, October 4, 1873. He was graduated as 
a Bachelor of Arts in 1893 by the University of Pennsylvania, and 
was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1896. 

Mr. Kendrick has always been interested in public affairs and 
has also devoted considerable time to Masonic matters; was made a 
Mason by virtue of special dispensation when not quite twenty 
years of age, was one of the charter members and is a Past Master 



56 



of University Lodge, No. 6io, a member of Harmony Chapter, Phil- 
adelphia Commandery, and Philadelphia Consistory A. and A, 

Scottish Rite. Is at present a 
member of the Board of Direc- 
tors of the Athletic Association 
of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, and while in college was 
president of an inter-collegiate 
association of Amateur Athletes 
of America. 

While in college he won a 
prize for an original oration on 
the subject of "The Stage as a 
Factor in Education." 

Mr. Kendrick's ancestors 
on both sides of the family 
participated in the Revolution, 
and his grandfather for three 
years served and attained the 
rank of captain in the Ci\il 
War, besides taking an active 
interest in the formation of the 
regiments that were enlisted in 
Philadelphia. 

Mr. Kendrick is a member 
of the Union League, Uni- 
versity Club, Pen and Pencil Club, Powelton Club, Hamilton 
Club, Mask and Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania, 
Lincoln Club and the Young Republicans. 




MURDOCH KKNDKICK. 



/■x f///' 







57 



General Committee Thirty-third National Encampment 
AND Reunion of the Grand army of the Republic. 

Headquarters S. IV. Corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. 

LOUIS WAGNER, Chairman. 
ROBERT B. BEATH, Secretary. 
JOHN LOCKHART, Assistant Secretary. 
CHARLES M. BETTS. Treasurer. 
. MURDOCH KENDRICK, Solicitor. 
JAMES W. NAGLE, Eiuancial Secretary. 

HON. SAMUEL H. ASHBRIDGE, Mayor, Citv of Pliiladlpliia. 
ABRAHAM L. ENGLISH, Director, Department of Public Safetv. 
WILLIAM C. HADDOCK, Director, Department of Public AVoriis. 



JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF COUNCILS. 
George Hawkes, Chairman. 



♦Robert R. Brinshurst, 
J. Emory By ram, 

♦Henry Clay, 
George B. Edwards, 



SELECT COUNCIL. 

"Franklin M. Harris, 
*(jei.>rue W. Joerirer. 
William McMurien, 
Joseph L. Nobre. 

James L. Miles. 



Harry J. Trainer, 
Wats(in I>. Upperman, 
* William S. Vare. 
Thomas S. Wiltbank, 



Dr. Wilmer R. Batt, 
Edward C. Cullen, 
*John W. Davidson, 
♦Samuel B. Gilpiu, 



COMMON COVNCIl.. 

♦George Hawkes, 
Thomas J. Henry, 
(jJeorge J. Jewill. 
Robert S. Leithead. 
Wencel Hartman. 



♦Josiah Lliiriiii. 
♦William A. Miller. 

John T. StanlTer, 
♦John H. Wood head. 



ACCOMMODATIONS. 

HOTELS. 

1'. H. Fratz, Chairman: J. H. Holcomb, Secretary. 

Nicholas Barger, Charles J. Bigley. Charles D. Brook. James Glenn. John 
W. Haseltine, Thomas J. Henry, J. W. Irwin, John W. M(<;arv.'y, Harvey 
Miller, Trubert Ortlieb, Richard Righter, George Sheets. John Weldt-. 

BOARDING HOrSES. 

Edward D. Smith, Secretary: James H. Eckersley. Chairman. 

Joseph T. Beeson, Samuel Crothers. AVilliam Graham, John F. Keator. John 
McElfresh, Robert Morrison. Edward F. Swift, Thomas Wallace Swan, Watson 
D. Upperman, James AVelsh. William R. Woofers. 



CAMP AND FREE QUARTERS. 

T. H. Maginniss. Chairman: W. S. Moorhead. Secretary. 

I'osTS IX rniLAKELriUA. 

Post No. 1.— (\ Irvine Wright, P. C. ; C. M. Beale, C. F. Crane, J. R. Oakford. 
Ephraim Stevenson. J. K. P. W^ier. ,. 

Post No. 2.— Fred H. Henrv. P. C: John Farrar. Thomas Morris, A\ illiam S. 
Moorhead. William N. S'nyder, Joseph B. Magnigaii. 

Post No. 5— Samuel J. McMillan. P. C. : D. W. Blaii<licr, Phil S, Conway. Jo- 
seph H. Gartside. James M<("ormick. Thomas Orr. W. S. Wilkinson. 

Post No. 6.— Joseph Paramore. S. V. C.: George W. Engel, Alluri Insmgcr. 1 lico. 
Schweriner, Jacob M. West. 

♦These gentlemen are members of the Executive Committee. 



58 



Post No. 7.— Joseph Jackaway, P. C. ; William Gilman, James Glenu, James 

McGowan, Jacob J. Peterson, Joseph Swartz, Franklin S. Stultz, William T. 

Vandever. 
Post No. S.— William H. R. Neel, P. C. ; H. L. Bossert, M. Geisenberger, Joseph 

Graham, Alfred F. Kemmerline, William G. Mason, Thomas Meyer, J. K. 

Norcross, W. K. Peterman, B. Richardson, Thomas Stinemyer, James L. 

Weatherhead. 
Post No. 10.— Zachary T. Moore, F. W. Carpenter, George W. Clarke, P. Mc- 

Nulty, Charles G. Weed. 
Post No. 12.— Isaac Wright, P. C; C. B. Dunlap, George W. Gillett, Robert 

L.ees. 
Post No. 14.— Frank Cassiday, P. C. ; James Graham, Charles W. Kessler, M. 

Liafterty. 
Post No. 15.— J. J. Fisher, P. C; Thomas R. Firth, James Christy, William H. 

Mattis, Charles K. Sarber. 
Post No. 18.— Joseph P. Barger, P. C. ; Thomas Garch, T. M. Marshall. 
Post No. ly.— George T. R. Knorr, P. C. ; W. J. Canning, Alfred Craighead, 

James Kane, W. H. Moore, J. George Orth, William H. Varnick, J. Fred 

Volk. 
Post No. 21.— H. H. Shannon, P. C. ; Ebenezer Adams, Henry B. Crane, Robert 

Hall. 
Post No. 24.— W. C. Besselievre. P. C; James T. Cunningham, George W. Elli- 

cott, Charles H. Flemming, Philip C. Kiefer. 
Post No. 27.— Edward F. Harris, P. C; John Mitchell, Jere W. Johnson, Levi 

Oberton, William Vann. 
Post No. 35.— George C. Piatt, P. C; William Baltz, Samuel H. Gill, Charles 

Reese, William H. Sterns. 
Post No. 46. — George J. Schwartz, P. C. ; Michael Clause, Paul Hart, Frederick 

Lutz, William J. Miller, Benjamin L. Myers, John Palmer. 
Post No. 51.— Lalen C. Krisher, P. C: William B. Craig, John Emhart, Jere S. 

Fluck, H. F. Glass, A. J. Hertzler, Thomas H. Kay, John M. Knowles, 

Charles Mount, Thomas J. Powers, Adam C. West. 
Post No. 55.— Albert J. Johnson, P. C. ; William Huckle, Allen Hilt, Albert 

Quigley, Samuel Vennable. 
Post No. 56.— Thomas Haines, P. C; John W. Forrey, Christian Young. 
Post No. 63.— John C. Weaver, P. C; Albert A. Barndt, Fred J. Mucklow, Henry 

Shadel. 
Post No. 71.— Enos H. Bacon. James W. Bayley, John W. Clayton, John Howell, 

John H. McCallister, Arthur C. Taylor. 
Post No. 77.— William H. Taylor. P. C; George W. Evans. James T. Walters. 
Post No. 80. — Francis Durham, P. C; Stephen B. Adam, Richard Freeman, W. 

H. Seeley. 
Post No. 94.— William K. Pierce, P. C. ; Louis Engle, Carl Frederick, Joseph W. 

Garrett, William H. Green, George N. Heyl, Thomas B. Ostrander, Wesley 

Stewart. 
Post No. 103.— Mitchell Logan, P. C; Abraham F. Haines, John J. Turner, A. F. 

Wallace. 
Post No. 114.— Albanus L. Reiff, P. C: William Baxter, Isaac Brooke, Joshua 

Knight, Jacob Lawrence. 
Post No. 115.— Michael Farrell. P. C; H. C. Scattcrgood. William J. McGirr, 

B. A. McCloskey. 
Post No. 160.— F. H. Johnson, P. C. ; Harrison Campion. W. B. Pavne. 
Post No. 19L— Wesley McBride, P. C; J. N. Reber. William Shew. 
Post No. 228.— Trubert Ortlieb, P. C; William Becker, Remi Boemer, Jacob A. 

Schmid. 
Post No. 275.— John Finnegan, P. C; R. J. Owens. Ed H. Hanson. J. D. Hoffner. 
Post No. 312.— Levi S. Godshall, Robert M. Fleming. F. G. Malone. 
Post No. 3.34.— Fred Everts, P. C. : William H. Embery, Dr. John Ramsden. 
Post No. 36.3.— Thomas G. Hall, P. C; John M. Deavis, David W. Farrow, 

W. F. Whealand. 
Post No. 400.— Michael Quiglev. P. C. : James E. Bovle. James Corbett. James 

Clark, H. K. Hinos. Oliver Lauson, Patrick McNamee, William J. Morgan. 

Henry B. Myers. John T. Potts, William Reanor. William Simmons, Andrew 

Smith, Thonins White. 

POSTS OF ADJOINING COUNTIES. 

Post No. 11. Norristown.— Joseph Cameron, P. C; Samuel .\kiiis. .lolm T. Cox, 

Samuel E. Nvee, W. W. Potts. 
Post No. 25, Chester.— Mark W. All^n, P. C; Theo. J. Boll. John R. CuUings- 

worth, Samuel Crowther, John G. Tavlor. 
Post No. 31. West Chester.- Christopher Beckman. P. C; Thomas W. Taylor. 
Post No. 45, Phoenixville.— F. A. Tencate. P. C. 

Post No. 54, Coatesvillo.— John H. Seachrlst, P. C; F. B. Speakman. 
Post No. 73, Bristol.— James W. Phillips, P. C: T. B. Harkins. 
Post No. 79. Conshohocken. — Joseph C. .Tones. P. C. 
Post No. 101, Hatboro.- William A. Sterling, P. C; William H. Barton. William 

W. ("orson. 



59 

Post No. 106, Pottstown.— David B. Ziuimeily, P. C; Levi DeKalb, J. F. Elton- 
head. William S. Levingood. 

Post No. 130, West Chester. — Ephraim Johnson. 

Post No. 132, Oxford.— W. H. Harrison, P. C; E. L. Gilligau, A. H. Ingram, 
Joseph M. Showalter. 

Post No. 138, Avondale.— Moses Dunmore, P. C. : Peter Heuson. 

Post No. 145, Richland Centre.— Thomas Haigh, P. C. 

Post No. 149, Media.— Leon H. Watters, P. C: Samuel R. McDowell. 

Post No. 194, Chester. — Samuel R. Derry, P. C. 

Post No. 255, Dovpningtown. — Nathan Wilson, P. C. 

Post No. 290, Lansdale.— Samuel W. Bruner, P. C; J. M. Case. 

Post No. 306, Doylestown.— Charles A. Guffell, P. C: Jacob Clemons. 

Post No. 366, Langhorne. — Joseph Milnor, P. C; Charles McCorkle. 

Post No. 427, Newtown.— Isaac S. Wright, P. C; William Wynkoop. 

Post No. 515, Schwenksville.— H. H. Whitman, P. C. : H. H. Fetterolf. 

Post No. 591, Brvn Mawr.— George H. Derrick. P. C. ; George L. Baker. 

Post No. 595, Pottstown.— J. R. Weikle, P. C. ; P. Wiley Reagen. 

AUDITING COMMITTEE. 

William Harkness. Chairman: Daniel W. Bussinger. Secretary; Henry Clay, 
Frank M. Highley, William D. Lelar, James McCormick. 

BADGES. 

James F. Morrison, Chairman; Henry I. Yohn, Secretary; George W. Carteret, 
William J. Duryea, Henrv Eddishaw, Fred M. Middleton. William McMuIlen. 
George J. Schwartz, Joseph N. Shutf, John Stewart, Franklin S. Stultz, Robert 
B. Wallace. 

BUREAU OF INFORMATION. 

Edwin Walton, Chairman; William D. Orr, Secretary; Charles J. Bigley, John 
I. Brady. Robert R. Bringhurst, Henry B. Crane, S. G. Diehl. Francis Durham, 
(ieorge W. Evans, George W. Joerger. Alexander W. Givin, John Gormly. 
Thomas G. Hall, Edward F. Harris. William J. Hollis, George W. Kerns, Lewis 
W. Moore, Percy C. Madeira, Gavin Neilson. Thomas B. Ostrander. R. M. J. 
Reed, Max Riebenack, Jr., George P. Rupp, Edward A. Stockton, H. Synnamou, 
William S. Wilkinson. 

CAMP-FIRES AND REUNIONS. 

John M. Vanderslice, Chairman; Charles A. Suydam, Secretary: Richard Bax- 
ter, J. Emory Byram, John W. Davidson, Frank E. Davis, Adam G. Fouse, 
George W. Gillet, Joseph Gregson, Thomas Haines, Henry Harper, TVilliam 
D. Johnson, Rev. S. P. Kelly, John C. Kurtz, George H. Laut, George W. Mc- 
Gregor. Robert J. Owens, Rev. John W. Sayers, Henry Seher, H. J. Shannon, 
Levi W. Shengle, John J. Woods. 

DECORATIONS AND ILLUMINATIONS. 

Frank Furness, Chairman; St. Clair A. Mulholland, Secretary: G.S. Bingham, 
Charles M. Burns, William Dreydoppel. Theo. N. Ely Joshua L. Field, George 
P. Fox, Stanley B. Haddock. Wencel Hartman. W. H. Harrison George 
Hawkes, Charles W. Henry. George J. Jewill, John C. Lewis, Joslah Linton. 
James L. Miles, William McCoach. Benjamin P. Obdyke, Samuel C. Perkins. 
Jacob J. Seeds, A. Loudon Snowden, John S. Stevens. William S. Stokley. 
J. B. Stevenson, Jr., L. D. C. Tyler, J. C. Walker, David H. Uatts, W. Red- 
wood Wright. 

FINANCE. 

Theodore E. Wiedersheim, Chairman: William T. Tilden, Secretary: Joel J. 
Bailv, Thomas B. Balrd, James W. Baird. Rudolph BInnkenburg Benjamin 
Brooke. James Butterworth, George Campbell, Clarkson Clothier, John H. con- 
verse. William M. Coates. Joel Cook, A. P. Colesberry, W. W 1'""' V' n^l^ , m 
W. Frazier, Henrv B. Gross, E. A. Hancock. Charles J. Harrah. I-ranklin M. 
Harris, Charles H. Howell, William H. Lambert Thomas ^""er .Tr^^, J <>. 
Kosengarten. Thomas Robb. John Sailer, Thomas D. Stinson ^\intluop Smi h. 
Edwafd I. Smith. Edwin S. Stuart, Henry L. Townsend. John Wanamakei. 
Harry F. West, William Wood. 

HORSES AND CARRIAGES. 

George W. Kendrick. Jr.. Chairmnn: T-'^nis M. Watrner Secretar.v; H^^^^^ 

R. Cole, Duckett Harman, J. Harry Hughes. Albert J-,-VinS'^"v«^ffir wnUam 

Samuel B. McQuilkin, James A. Park, Frank Richards, John T. Stauffer, William 

F. Stewart, John A. Wiedersheim. 



6o 



INVITATIONS AND COURTESIES. 

John 1*. Nicholson, Chairman; Governor William A. Stone, Mayor Samuel H. 
Ashbridge. David McM. Gregg, James A. Beaver, Henry H. Bingham, K. Dale 
Benson, Joseph G. Darlington, James Forney, John P. Green, Daniel H. Hast- 
ings, Th(ini;\s S. Harrison, George Hawkes, Theodore Justice, William H. Lam- 
beTt. Clarke .Merchant, Alex K. McClure, Clayton McMichael, Robert E. Pat- 
tison. S. W. I'ennypacker, Edson J. AVeeks, Thomas S. Wiltbank. 

MEDICAL CORPS. 

The I'hihulelphia Medical Emergency Corps of the Department of Public 

Safety. 

Officers— Dr. T. H. Andrews, Medical Director; Dr. Green R. Hulsizer, Com- 
mander: Dr. W. H. Ziegler, Vice-President; Dr. Lewis C. Wessels, Treasurer. 

Committee.— Dr. T. H. Andrews, Chairman; Dr. Green R. Hulsizer. Secretarv; 
Dr. Wilmer R. Batt, Dr. W. R. D. Blackwood. Dr. Charles H. Dwyer, Dr. 
Charles H. Gardner, Dr. A. M. Hendricks, Dr. E. C. Howard, Dr. William H. 
Hutt, Dr. William B. Jones. Dr. AV. W. Lamb. 

MUSIC. 

O. C. Bosl)yshell, ('hairman; Charles A. Suydam, Secretary; Enoch W. Pear- 
son. Director of Music. Public Schools; W. C. Besselievre, J. Emory Byram. 
.\ndrew James, Rev. W. E. Jones, D. D., George T. R. Knorr, James L. Miles. 
I'harles Rodebaugh. William H. Seele.v, William Schlipf, Charles L. Shumaeher, 
H. J. Stager, Theodore Schweriner,' Samuel P. Town, Henry F. Walton, R. B. 
Wallace. 

NAVY AND MAKINE CORPS. 

Richard S. Collnm. Chairman; John F. Mackie, Secretary; Josiah R. Adams, 
Isaac K. Archer. H. H. Bingham, Silas Casey, Charles E. Clark. William P. 
Clyde, Joel Cook, Edwin S. Cramp, A. F. Donegan, Alexander Duer. Thomas 
W. Farnan, Samuel B. (Jilpin, Clement A. Griscom, Samuel B. Huey. Ellsworth 
H. Hults. Frederick V. Holt, F. H. Johnson, Dr. C. W. Karsner, Theodore 
Kitchen, Daniel F. Kellv. Joseph H. Klemnier. l>r. A. G. Laurent, Clarke Mer- 
chant, Josejih McClees, Henry McConnell, Jackson McElmell, W. G. McEwen, 
Henry C. McUvaine, John S. Muckle. James B. Nichiilson, Thomas C. Price. 
.Michael (,»uigley. Frank Robinson, A\'illiani Siniuions, .\ndrew Smith, C. Wesle.v 
Thomas. William R. Tucker, W. Redwood AVright, James R. Young. 

OTHER SOCIETIES. 

II. Douglas IIuKlies, Chairman : Charles A. Ilexamer. Secretary. 

(STH-COMMITTEKS.) 

National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War.— David T. Davies, D. F. 

.\icliols, Thomas Smith. 
Sons of Veterans.— John P.ower. Jr.. William B. McNulty. William S. Curry. 
Woman's Relief Corps.— Ed win Walton. (Jeorge P.. Edwards, Levi Oberton. 

Franklin Fritz. 
Ladies of the (J. A. R.— Charles M. Keegan, R. M. J. Reed, William Frazer. 
Associ.-ition of Army Nurses of the Civil War.— Charles A. Hexamer, Frank 

Stewart, Jr., Louis R. Fortescue. 
Daughters of Vet<'rans.— James Tawney, J(din Taylor. .Ir.. Willi.-im Tritli;ir. 

I'ARADE AND UlOXllOW. 

James W. Latta, Chairuian: .Samuel I'. Town. Secretary; R. Dale Benson. 
Svlvester Bonnaffon, John F. <'onaway, William ICmslev, S. Irvin Givin. Charles 
S. (ireene. William C. Loan, John W. Moore. Ilenrv .\. Pauli. Ilarrv M. Oiiirk. 
Thomas J. Stewart. Thad. L. Vanderslice. 'I'lieo. E. Wiedersheim. Stanlev J. 
Widdis. 
National Onard and Citi/ens' Commit teo.-Charli's C. .\llen. W. L. Itoslivsliell. 

.\lbert II. r.oo/., Fdw.-ird E. Cnllen. Willi;nn .1. I-:ilioll J. C.-impbell Cilnmre. 

Maleoliii llemy. .lames Iloyt, Thomas S. .Martin. William S. I'onlterer. Dr. 

I'lKirles S. Tinnlnill. 

POSTS (IF ca.miii:n. N. J. 

General Commit I ee.— George l*.;irrelt. Chairm.-in; .bdin Cherry. Viee-Cli;nrman : 

H. L. llarlshorne. Treasurer: .lolin I",. I'aiicn. Se<iet.ny : Silas W. Volk, .Vs- 

sistant Secrelary. 
Citizens' Committee. C.-iimlen. lion. Coopei- !!, ll.-iieji. M.-ivor: Coui-.-id 1'. .\us- 

termuhl. David I'.airil. Willi:im .1. I'.radlev. Hr 11. H. Davis, W.it-^on Deimv. 

Dr. .lohn W. li.umvs. Uev. .lohn llandlev. I ). D.. Willl.nn 1.. llnilev. llerbeit 



L. Joliiison, r.cu.jaiiiiu K. Mcllor. J. Alplunis McCracUcii. (i(M.r;:c A. Miin;.'('r. 
D. B. Murphy, Will>ur F. Rose. W. .1. Sfwi-ll, Fitliiaii S. Sim is. 

Post No. 5.— George K. Martin. Cliairiiiaii : (iforirc Itarrctt. .loliii W. IJodiiic. 
Hen.ianiiii Carlin. W. H. Cooper, .John (U'oniie. .1. C. Ciinard. Joseph U. Fox, 
Israel L. Fish. H. L. Hartshorue, R. M. IliHiiian, Thomas Ilollownv, I). W. 
Sapphore. Artliur Stanle.v. Rohert Sheppanl. I. ('. Tooiie. William' Tlnimp- 
soii. Silas W. Vdlk. .John A. Ward, S. S. Weaver. 

I'ost No. :!T.— .Idlui K. Fagen, Chairuian: J. M. Adams. John ("herrv. O. K. Col- 
lins. James I). Chester. L. T. Iterrousse. A. R. Dense. tJeorire F. Hammond, 
Charles Hewitt. Isaac 1>. Matlaek, George Mael'herson. F. .Movers. John 
Owens, J. L. I'rickett, R. J. Robertson. C. E. Thompson. Charles F. Wallen. 
Joseph Woodfield, Foster Zane. 

I'ost No. 51.— Pierce Brown. Commander; John Franks. Rev. A. H. Newton. 
James Robinson. Josejili Scott. 

Post No. 1(»2.— Edwin T. Allen. Chairuian: Thomas Entrikin, Geoi-ge Ettev. 
(niarles Fetters. Charles Hojie. Gottleib Hicht. W. H. Jones. William H. 
Marshall, Peter MrArdel. W. J. Orem, Benjamin I'ntn.im. H. K. Sedding.T. 

PRESS. 

James W. Nagle, Chairman; Frank H. Ta.vlor. Secretar.v; A. C. P-.-ncla v. 
<"harles Heber Clark, John F. Fiune.v, Josiah Linton, Josfi)li Murwitz. Ileni'v 
I'eunington. Samuel M. Wauamaker, Bruno Wahl. 

PRINTING. 

('.J. Hexamer, Chairman; J. Hampton Moore. Seiretary. 
Victor Augerer, Thomas Chauiberlin, Charles H. Clarke. Josepli R. Craig. 
A. H. Fetterolf. F. Haltermau, Franklin Hall. Robert S. Eeithead. Arno Leou- 
hardt, Mariou D. Learned. M. Richards Muckle, William H. Staake. 

PUBLIC COMFORT. 




TRANSPORTATION. 

John M. Walton, Chairman; William H. Winter, Secretary: P.. Ashby. Jai-ob 
E. P.arr. C. (J. Cadwallader. Charles Este. James G.illanher. William L. James. 
W. S. Kimball. W. H. McCormick, W. R. Xidndson, G. S. Xoble. James Potter. 
J. K. Shoemaker, Henry Tatnall, John H. Woodhead. 

U. S. COLORED TROOl'S. 

Samuel Jones. Chairman: William H. Jones. Secretary: Stei)hen B. Adams. 
Treasurer: Edward F. Harris, Assistant Secretary: Andrew James. .Vssist.int 
Secretarv; R<d)ert M. Adger, John Avres. William P. Allmond. J. C. Asbury. 
W. A. W. Baugh. William (\ Bolivar. Charles H. P.rooks, R.'V. John C. l!ro<-k. 
J. Handd ('(dentan. Levi Cromwell, Martin Cowdery. Sr.. Abele P. Caldwell. 
Rev. J. S. Caldwell. Rev. L. J. Coppin. (ieorge W. Dawley. Robert I>aniels. 
Philip H. Edwards. John W. Elsev. William Fr.-izier. John A. Fjiucett, Ri<-hard 
Freeman, Isaac Frav, George Garnet. Walter P. Hall. Abr.-im F. Haines. Dr. 
E. C. Howard. W. li. Johnson. Jere W. J(dmsoti. John P. Junior. Samuel John- 
son. Joshua D. Kellev. Mit(diell Logan. William D. Laws, (ieorge Lee. William 
<i. Lee. Ilenrv S. Martin. Alex;iiider Murray. Isaai- Matthews. John Mitchell. 

J. B. Matthews. Heiirv M. Mintoii. 'I'l i)hiliis J. Mintoii, C. W. Mitchell. Rev. 

H. A. Monroe. R. L.' Montier. James F. Needham. M. Liith.-r Nndiols. L<;vi 
Oberton. Daniel W. Parvis, Robert Parker. Rev. John M. P;ilmer. I iKUiias IP 
Ringgold. Andrew F. Stevens, Hans Shadd. William H. Seelcv. <.re<>ii smith. 
John' J. Turner, William Vann, George H. Wilson. Abram F. \\allacc. 

RE(nSTRATION. 

Harry L. Neall, Chairman: Clarence Y. Nicholson, Secretary: John W. D.ivid- 
s(ui, Sylvester H. Martin, Edwin Walton. 



PHILADELPHIA IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION. 

By John M. Vanderslice. 



In 1861 when Fort Sumter was fired upon Phila- 
delphia had a population of less than 500,000. 

Under the first call of President Lincoln for 
volunteers for three months' service, the following 
eight regiments were immediately recruited in tlie 
city and mustered into service, the 17th, i8th, iQth, 
20th, 2ist, 22d, 23d and 24th, and McMullen's 
Rangers. 

Under the call for regiments for three years' 
service the following were organized in the city: 




JOHN M. VANDKRSLICe. 



Infantry. 

23d Pennsylvania (Birney's Zouaves), served in Sixth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

26th, served in Third Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

27th, served in Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

28th (six companies), served in Twelfth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

29th, served in Twelfth Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

2d Pennsylvania Reserves, served in Fifth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

3d Pennsylvania Reserves (two companies), served in Fifth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

4th Pennsylvania Reserves (five companies), served in Fifth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, 

7th Pennsylvania Reserves (three companies), served in Fifth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

12th Pennsylvania Reserves (one company), served in Fiftii 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, 

58th (six companies), served in Eighteenth Corps, Army of 
James. 

6ist (three companies), served in Sixth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

67th (two companies), served in Sixth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

63 



64 



68th, served in Third Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
69th, served in Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
71st, served in Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
72d (Baxter's Zouaves), served in Second Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

73d, served in Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
75th served in Eleventh Corps, Army of the Potomac, 

8ist (six companies), served 
in Second Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

82d, served in Sixth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

88th, served in First Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

90th, served in First Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

91st, served in Fifth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

95th (Gosline's Zouaves), 
served in Sixth Corps, Army of 
the Potomac. 
*»■. 98th, served in Sixth Corps, 

Army of the Potomac. 

99th, served in Third Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

io6th, served in Second Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. 

109th, served in T \v e 1 f t h 
Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

I loth (four c m p a n i e s) , 
served in Third Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

114th (Collis' Zouaves), served in Third Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

115th, served in Third Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
ii6th, served in Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
ii8th (Corn Exchange), served in Fifth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

119th, served in Sixth Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
I2ist, served in First Corps, Army of the Potomac. 




GEN. GEORGE B. M'CI.RIXAN. 



65 



i47th (four companies), served in Twelfth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

i50tli (four companies), served in First Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

157th (four companies), served in Fifth Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

183d, served in Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

i88th, served in Eighteenth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

Cavalry. 

2d (seven companies), 
served in Cavah'y Corps, Army 
of the Potomac. 

3d (seven companies), 
served in Cavah'y Corps, Army 
of the Potomac. 

5tli, served in Army of tlie 
James. 

6th (Rush's Lancers), 
served in Cavah'y Corps, Arm\- 
of the Potomac. 

8th, served in C a v a 1 r \- 
Corps, Army of tiie Potomac. 

1 3th (eight companies), 
served in Cavah'y Corps, Army 
of the Potomac. 

14th, (Company A), served 
in Cavalry, West Virginia. 

15th, served in Cavalr\-, 
Army of the Cumberland. 

19th, served in Cavalry, Army of the Mississippi. 

20th, served in Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. 

ART1LLER^•. 

Batteries C (McCarthy's), D (Flood's), G (Kern's), and H 
(Bradys'), First Pennsylvania Artillery, and Scheffer's Indepen- 
dent Battery. 

The above commands, constituting thirty-four full regiments of 
5 




GKN. GKORGH; G. MKAUli. 



66 

Infantry, eight regiments of Cavalry and five batteries of Artillery, 
with four exceptions, served in the Army of the Potomac, and all of 
those whose term of service expired before the close of the war, 
except four, re-enlisted in the field for the war. 

In addition to these veteran regiments the following were 
recruited in the city for one year's service : 198th, 199th, 202d, 
213th, 214th, 215th, and Keystone Battery, and the following for 
one hundred days : the I92d, 196th, 197th. 



In Other Than Pennsylvania Commands. 




AN AKMV HOSPITAL. 

avy, of whom there is no separate record. 



Company C, 
First New York 
C a V a 1 r y — Two 
companies, 40th 
New York (Moz- 
art), several com- 
panies of the Sec- 
ond Delaware, 
greater part of the 
54th Massachusetts 
(colored), and of 
the 3d, 6th, 8th, 
24th, 25th and 32d 
United States Col- 
ored Regiments and 
thousands in the 
regular arm\" and 



Emergency Troops. 



Besides tiie above there were organized in the city during the 
Antietam Campaign and invasion of Maryland, 1862, the 7th, 8th, 
9th, 20th, and 2 1st National Guard Regiments, and during the 
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863, the 20th, 32d, 33d, 40th, 44th, 49th, 
52d, 57th, 59th and 60th Emergency Regiments, First Cit\' and Dana 
Troops of Cavalry, Miller's and Landis' Batteries. 



■67 

General Officers. 

The following general officers were from this city : General 
McClellan, organizer and commander of the Army of the Potomac, 
1861-62 ; General Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac 
from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863-65 ; Admiral Porter, Major- 
General Humphreys, Chief of Staff, and afterwards commander of 
the Second Corps ; Birney of the Third Corps, and afterwards com- 
mander of the Tenth ; Gibbon of the Second, and afterwards com- 
mander of the Twenty-fourth ; Patterson and Cadwalader, and 
Brigadier-Generals Bohlen, Bushbeck, Meredith, Neill, Owen, Porter, 
Wister, Haupt, Tyndale and Patterson. 

From the neighboring county of Montgomery came Hancock, com- 
mander of the Second Corps ; Hartranft, Zook and Brooke. From 
Chester, Parke, commander of the Ninth ; McCall and Penny- 
packer. From Bucks, A. J. Smith, commander of the Sixteenth Corps, 
and Davis. From Lancaster, Reynolds, commander of the First, 
and Heintzleman of the Third, and from Berks, D. McM. Gregg, 
the cavalry leader. 



Caring for the Soldier. 

The Cooper Shop and Union \'olunteer Refreshment Saloons 
and Volunteer Hospital were the first institutions of the kind estab- 
lished, and in them, all regiments passing through the city as well 
as individual soldiers, in all numbering hundreds of thousands, were 
entertained and carefully provided for without charge, a large com- 
mittee of patriotic ladies and gentlemen being on duty all night, as 
well as in the day. They were faithfully aided by the Volunteer Fire- 
men's Ambulance Corps, each of the companies of which kept ready 
for service at all times a costly and comfortable ambulance, manned 
by men who believed it impossible to do too much for the soldier. 





FAIRMOUNT WATER WOKKS. 



PHILADELPHIA— PAST AND PRESENT. 

The birth of Philadelphia is generally 
considered to have been coincident with the 
arrival of the great Quaker proprietor, Will- 
iam Penn, who first sailed up the Delaware 
River in the year 1682, although for more 
than half a century prior to this time the 
Swedes had been settled along the stream, 
and had maintained a settlement within the 
present confines of the city, at Wicaco, from 
the year 1677. 

Through the broad-minded direction of 
Penn, the city was surveyed by Thomas 
Holme, under the immediate supervision of 
William Markham. Provision was made at 
intervals for public squares, and thus the old city was built upon 
the severely rectangular plan which is one of its leading character- 
istics. Beyond the limits of the original survey numerous country 
roads led away at various angles to the general plan, and these 
have long since been absorbed into the great system of city high- 
ways which now cover a space, mostly well populated, of one 
hundred and twenty-nine square miles. 

While many other of the early settlements along the Atlantic 
seaboard have languished and failed, Philadelphia has developed 
steadily from the beginning. Behind her, covering forty-five thou- 
sand square miles, is the great State of Pennsylvania, the richest 
commonwealth in the Union, for whose vast and varied products of 
the field, forest and mine this city is the natural outlet. With a 
broad channel connecting her roomy harbor with the open sea she 
has always been a large factor in the commerce of the nation, both 
domestic and foreign, and in this particular will soon increase the 
ratio of her importance greatly. 

it is, however, principally as the centre of enormous manufac- 
turing interests that Philadelphia has grown to such vast proportions, 
and to the creative industries by far the greater portion of her busy 

71 



72 



army of wage earners owe their remarkable prosperity and 
contentment. 

Nowhere else in the world can the toiler obtain more constant 
employment or surround his family with as much security and com- 
fort with the fruits of his labor as in this city. In no great commu- 
nity elsewhere are the conditions of life among the middle classes 
so favorable to the enjoyment of life or the best development of 
good, honest American character. 

The population of Philadelphia, which was, sixty years ago, some 
two hundred and flft\' thousand, now exceeds one million two 

hundred thous- 
and. 

These cit- 
izens reside 
principally in 
separate a n d 
distinct homes, 
of which there 
are more than 
two hundred 
thousand. 
While the 
rental system 
is extensive 
and advantage- 
ous, the occu- 
pants of the 
houses are 

largely owners. This desirable condition amounts here to almost 
the condition of a mania. Homes are largely paid for through the 
well-known system of building associations, of which there are 
some six hundred in the city. 

Within recent years the development of a great network of 
electric railway lines, extending far into the open country in all 
directions, has fostered the growth of beautiful new resident sec- 
tions within easy and cheap reach of the city's centre. Along with 
the completion of modern local passenger service has come the very 
general repaving of the streets, chiefly with asphalt, and nowhere 
are the vast legions of cyclists and dri\ers more favored with good 




WASHINGTON MONUMENT. 
GREEN STREET ENTRANCE, FAIRMOUNT PARK. 



73 



surfaces than here. Broad street, extending from north to south 
through the centre of the city, is the longest paved street in the 
world. 

The impress of Quaker simplicity will always be seen in the 
earlier architecture of the city, but the old red and white fronts, 
glaring in the sunlight, are now largely relieved by more ornate and 
tasteful designs in not only home buildings, but in a great number 
of splendid public, corporate, educational, office and other modern 
structures which now grace our streets. 

It is current fiction, fondly cherished in scores of less prosperous 
or well ordered cities, that Philadelphia is "slow." In this matter, 
which largely 
arises from a 
certain con- 
servatism born 
of a sense of 
her own great- 
ness, Philadel- 
phia is often 
gibed by the 
newspapers of 
towns, all over 
the western 
country, which 
exist by virtue 
of Philadelphia 
investment and 
could only keep 
their places 
upon the map through grace of continued Philadelphia help. 

Recent statistics have shown that this city produces about one- 
twelfth of all the manufactured goods made in this country. 

Here are located the great ship-building plants which send 
forth upon the seas not only the largest of the ships of trade but 
many of the invincible vessels of our wonderful navy, and to which 
Russia, Japan and other distant countries are turning for their ships 
of war. Here are made the locomotives for railways all over the 
world, not excepting England, and to this city even the British in 
Egypt turn now for iron bridges. 




LINCOLN MONUMENT. 
FAIRMOUNT PARK. 



74 




The costly improvements along the Delaware River water-front 
now in progress will, with the large dredging operations down the 
river, soon place this port among the foremost upon this coast. 

The relative conditions of comfort and health in this city are 
best illustrated by the fact that although the average number of 
members in families is greater here than in any other large city, 
and three per cent greater than the average of the entire country, 

the mortality rate is the 
lowest known in the 
statistics of the great 
cities of the world; this 
fact also implying that 
more people live to an 
advanced age here than 
elsewhere. 

The savings of the 
wage-earners are de- 
posited in several great 
savings funds, one of 
which has in trust more 
than fifty millions of 
dollars. 

Philadelphia's City 
Hall is the largest and 
costliest building upon 
the continent, and its 
lofty tower is the high- 
est structure of the 
kind in the world. 

The terminal sta- 
tions of the great rail- 
road systems centering 
here are placed in the 
heart of the 'city within a brief walk of the best hotels. They are 
vast in proportions and beautiful in design. Nearly one thousand 
regular passenger trains come and go at these busy termini and 
other stations every day in the year. 

The system of retail shopping has been developed here by 
several great firms beyond that found even in the cities of New 
York or Chicago. 




MEADK MONUMENT. 

WEST FAIRMOUNT PARK. 



75 




<«• ..» m tU .'"'55=" 

rii'i ft 



AKT CLUB. 



New homes are built for fifty thousand added people every 
year. 

We lead in the study of medicine, dentistry and the applied arts. 
As the Grand Army of the Republic turns homeward at the 
conclusion of its great Encampment of the year 1899, an inter- 
national Exposition opens its portals as the embodied expression of 
a purpose more far reaching and full 
of promise than that of any similar event 
of modern times. Philadelphia has created, 
under the title of the Commercial Mu- 
seums, a complete University of World 
Trade, a place where the manufacturer may 
study the whole range of the raw materials 
and the domestic goods of every land, 
where he may command every detail of 
information which will enable him to open 
business relations with the merchants of 

every port and city to the ends of the earth. The National 
Association of Manufacturers was born here and has its principal 
office in the Bourse, which, by the way, is the most extensive build- 
ing devoted to traffic in this country. In this noble building too 
are the many trade exchanges and notably the influential Trades 
League, an organization of above two thousand firms, whose pur- 
pose is the extension of commercial interests of the city, and which 
is the principal agent in arranging for and entertaining the numerous 
Merchants' Excursions which come here annually from many of the 

states. . 

Two double-tracked railroads extend 
across New Jersey to the seashore and 
carry the people of Philadelphia in one 
brief comfortable hour away from the 
swelter of town down to the modern city 
of Atlantic, the most populous and inter- 
esting pleasure resort in the world. 

Atlantic City, with its hundreds of 
hotels and its famous board-walk, is 
really but a suburb of Philadelphia, and is undoubtedly the most 
cosmopolitan place in America. 

Other interesting excursions may be made to Cape May, to 




S^'IKtl-- 



DREXEL INSTITUTE. 



76 



I'ast IjV burt-au li 



many pleasant spots up or down the Delaware River, or by electric 
cars to Willow Grove Park, Woodside and similar charming refuges 
from the summer heat. 

Fairmount Park, where the great Centennial Exposition arose a 
generation since, is the queen of all public domains both in extent 
and natural beauty. It contains the splendid museum of Memorial 

Hall, the picturesque Horticul- 
tural Building and a wealth 
of historic colonial structures, 
and through the efforts of 
the Fairmount Park Art Asso- 
ciation a rich array of patriotic 
and historic bronzes, to which 
the most recent additions 
are the Washington monument, 
erected by the Society of the 
Cincinnati in 1897, and the 
equestrian statue of General 
Grant, unveiled in April of the 
present year. 

Close by the Park is the 
interesting Zoological Garden, 
with its costly collection of li\- 
ing animals, and at its furthest 
extreme the peerless drive and 
stream of the Wissahickon. 

Philadelphia does not throw 
into the scale of inducement to 
the stranger within her gates 
those lurid attractions which 
appeal to the grosser passions, 
but extends to him, when he 
comes here, that welcome which has won for her the honorable 
title of the "City of Brotherly Love." Such a city, indeed, as 
William Penn, standing beneath the historic elm of Kensington, 
saw with the eye of the prophet and made provision for in all his 
plans. 

Alwa\-s above and beyond everything else, the heart of the 
American soldier turns toward Philadelphia lovingly, as the typical, 




GRANT MONUMENT. 

EAST KAIU MOUNT PARK 



17 





jTjsfnirfr 



GIKARD AND BKTZ liUILDlNGS. 



patriotic city of our land. Other communities have responded nobly 
and loyally to the call to arms, but only in Philadelphia was there a 
"Cooper Shop" and a Sanitary Fair. 

When the troops of the North poured incessantly southward, in 
the years of the Nation's peril through the city, 
impetuously hurrying to the front from a thous- .; 

and starting points, the men and women of 
Philadelphia, our most exclusive and refined, 
met them with abundant food and every pos- 
sible provision of comfort in the few hours of 
their stay and cheered them as they sped away 
to the camp and battle-field, and here, at the 
same old Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment 
Building, those same men and women, spent 
and worn with labor, ministered to the shat- 
tered regiments which came back. Our fire- 
men vied in the splendid ambulance service 
which connected with the great hospitals where 
the physicians and the volunteer nurses 
worked day and night to minister to the sick and wounded of our 
armies. 

in 1864 the beautiful Logan Square was enclosed, trees and all, 
under a great group of structures by the United States Sanitary 
Commission, which had its origin in this city, and in two weeks 

more than one million of dollars was 
\ gained for the relief of the soldiers in 

camp. 

Philadelphia holds the Cradle of 
American Liberty. Quaint old Inde- 
- pendence Hall, now restored to its 
original condition, and the abiding 
place of the sacred bell, in one wing 
of this group of buildings is located 
the Departmental Headquarters of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, and 
adjoining is the headquarters of the 
Executive and General Committees of the Thirty-third Annual 
Encampment of the Order. 

From Philadelphia, in every war of the land, young men have 




POST OFFICE. 



78 



gone forth unknown and have written their names through countless 
deeds of valor upon the enduring tablet of our National history. In 
every populous cemetery of the city gleam the white shafts above 
sleeping heroes, conquerors by land and sea alike; and here, too, in 
humble, but not forgotten, graves are hundreds of those who carried 

only the musket, did their 
_^ duty, and gave up their 

lives that the nation might 
be saved. 

For all these reasons it 
is a happy circumstance 
that the Grand Army of 
the Republic, in its hale old 
age, after a third of a cen- 
tury has intervened since 
the events occurred which 
gave it being, should as- 
semble in Philadelphia, and, 
under the inspiration of its 
hospitality, the guidance of 
its great local comradeship 
and the inspiration of its 
traditions, once more pledge 
its fealty to the flag, which 
was fashioned m the little 
Arch street house, still 
existing, by a Philadelphia 
matron, and which has 
never been lowered \n 

KKVNOI.DS MONUMENT. 
NORTH env hali, plaza. ueTeat. 




The Cit\' Hall. 



The great central feature of the city is its City Hall, or Public 
Buildings. During the encampment week this structure will be 
decorated and illuminated in a most impressive and elaborate 
manner. 

The work' updii this building was commenced in 1871, and 
although the work is not yet completed the cost has been in excess 
of $20,000,000. 



79 

The length of the north and south fronts is 470 feet, anJ that of 
the east and west fronts is 486;2 feet The material principally 
used for both the building and enormous tower is white marble from 
quarries at Lee, Berkshire County, Mass. The interior windows of 




m'clelIvAn monument. 

NORTH CITY HALL PLAZA. 



its six floors of busy public offices look out upon a court>'ard 200 feet 
square, the favorite "short-cut" of many busy thousands ewry day. 
A full division of infantry troops might be comfortably massed within 
this enclosure. 



So 




MASUXIC TEMI'LE. 



Four grand archways, i8 feet wide and 36 feet high, richly 
embellished with polished columns and beautiful sculpture, are the 
sluiceways for the ceaseless human tide that surges through this 
splendid plaza. Who shall foretell what noble, impressive, per- 
chance tragic, scenes this Place de la Hotel de Ville of the Quaker 
City shall witness in the centuries yet to come; 
when those masters, who designed and built the 
surrounding walls, are remembered only by the 
occasional antiquarian who gropes in the cor- 
ridors below and chances upon the tablet of the 
corner-stone; when the conditions of life in 
these latter days of the great century of pro- 
gress, as they are outlined upon these pages, 
will be to the citizen and stranger but a tradi- 
tion, and those things of which we boast but the 
feeble efforts of a young and inexperienced 
people. 

Philadelphia of to-day is quite willing that 
this majestic building, and especially its tower, 
shall stand before the people of generations yet to come as the 
symbol of civilization and taste obtaining among us at the end of 
the present century. The tower is the great peculiar feature of the 
entire structure, and no person who has once enjoyed the far- 
reaching and impressive bird's-eye view 
of this busy aggregation of humanity 
will regret the millions it has cost to 
rear this purely ornamental shaft The 
tower is 90 feet square at the base, and 
its walls are 23 feet thick. The entire 
height of the work to the broad-rimmed 
hat upon the head of William Penn i.s 
547 feet and a fraction, an elevation 
greater, it is said, than any steeple or 
structure in the world built in connec- 
tion with an edifice, it exceeds that of 

the Great Pyramid 67 feet; St. Peter's Church, Rome, 99 feet ; the 
Cologne Cathedral, 37 feet. It is nearly twice the height of the 
dome of the National Capitol. The Washington Monument exceeds 
its altitude by 8 feet only. A great clock, the dial plates of which 











mi:kcanti1.i: cun 



8i 

have a diameter of 23 feet, adorns the tower at an elevation which 
makes it visible from ah parts of the city, the centre dial being 
361 feet above the sidewalk. The metallic columns and dome, of 
which the upper section consists, are plated with aluminum. 

The magnificent bronze figure of William Penn, the work of 
Philadelphia mechanics, is 37 feet high and weighs 52,400 pounds. 
It was cast in forty-seven pieces, and so skilfully joined that the 
most careful inspection fails to detect the junctures. 

Public r elevators are operated, connecting with all floors, and 
another rises to the top of the great tower, being operated every 
week-day. The remarkable hanging stair-ways at the four angles 
of the building are worthy of special notice by the visitor. Guides 
are always in attendance at the City Hall to show visitors through 
its apartments. For this service there is no change. 

Independence Hall. 

TJie Cradle of Liberty. 

Independence Hall, the Mecca of American freemen, was built 
by the Colonial Assembly in the years 1732 to 1741. Though it 
was occupied in 1735, it was not considered completed till 1741, 
and even then neither tower nor steeple crowned it. 

Here it was that the Declaration of Independence was consid- 
ered and adopted, and from its portals it was proclaimed, and it is 
worth remembrance that a Tory lady wrote in her diary: "The 
Declaration was read to-day. Very few respectable persons were 
present." At this spot Washington read his farewell address to the 
American people. Here the Articles of Confederation were adopted, 
and the Constitution of the United States was framed. 

Within the past year the restoration of Independence Hall, which 
has been in progress for a considerable time, was completed, and it 
presents to the visitor the exact condition in which it stood at the 
period of the Revolutionary War. In addition to the Hall of Con- 
gress and the Supreme Court Room upon the first floor a very inter- 
esting Colonial Museum is to be seen in the second story. 

This is the permanent home of the historic Liberty Bell. This 
priceless relic has been taken from the city on several occasions, 
notably to the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Atlanta Exposition 
and to New Orleans. 

6 



83 
The Wings of Liberty. 

The buildings flanking independence Hall proper, located 
respectively at the corners of Sixth and Chestnut (Congress Hall) 
and Fifth and Chestnut streets (Common Hall), are scarcely less 
interesting than the immediate "Cradle of Liberty." 

Congress met in Congress Hall from 1790 to 1800 and there the 
Constitution was put in running order. 

The second in.uiguration of Washington was held in the same 
building March 4, 1793. 

John Adams was inaugurated second President in Congress 
Hall, March 4, 1797, and there he presided over the Senate. 

The official announcement of Washington's death was made to 
both Houses of Congress in the same place. 

in Common Hall, at Fifth and Chestnut streets, the Supreme 
Court of the United States sat from February, 1791, to August 5, 
1800. 

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania also met there. 

The Mayor's office from the Revolutionary times until the 
administration of Edwin H. Fitler was in Common Hall. 

Councils met in the same building in pre-consolidation days. 

The Departmental Headquarters of the G. A. R. are located in 
the old Supreme Court Rooms at Fifth and Chestnut streets and the 
important work of the Executive and other committees in connection 
with the present encampment has been carried through upon the 
first floor. 

Adjoining this building is the venerable structure largely occu- 
pied by the Philosophical Society, which was founde'd by Benjamin 
Franklin in 1727. Upon the roll of membership, from the earliest 
day to the present time, may be found some of the greatest men in 
our country's history, all banded together for the promotion of use- 
ful knowledge. The present building was commenced in 1785, but 
was not entirely finished until the year 1791. It is an interesting 
fact that the building contained the University of Pennsylvania for 
five years, from 1789 to 1794. Many interesting memories cluster 
around this old colonial structure, memories of Franklin, Washing- 
ton, Jefl'erson, Rittenhouse, Bishop White, Rev. Nicholas Colin, 
and many others who are closely identified with our eaHy history 
and scientific development. It may be an interesting item to vis- 



84 

itors that during the last five years of the eighteenth century the 
second story northwest room served Charles W. Peale as a studio, 
and in that room, before the old fireplace still to be seen, the patriot 
artist painted Washington, Jefferson and many other celebrities of 
the time. 

A few years ago an additional story was put on the building, 
and the structure made fire-proof throughout. The additional room 
now contains the valuable library of the Society, the second floor 
being used exclusively for meeting purposes. The American Phil- 
osophical Society has always been a strictly American institution, 
representing Philadelphia of days gone by, and as such is well 
worthy of a visit from the intelligent stranger, be they from at home 
or abroad. The rooms are open week-days Lietwen lo a. m. and 
I p. m. 

Independence Square is one of the attractive spots in the heart 
of the city, and is especially noted for its beautiful trees, many of 
which were planted in the early days of the city's history. 



Carpenters' Hall. 

Another edifice, almost as hallowed a relic of Revolutionary 
days as Liberty Hall, is "Carpenters' Hall," which stands to the 
south of Chestnut street, between Third and Fourth streets, and is 
reached by a passageway from the street first named, it was here 
where, as by inscription on the walls, the visitor is told, "Henry, 
Hancock and Adams inspired the delegates of the colonies with 
nerve and sine\V for the toils of war;" where the first Continental 
Congress assembled, and where the first prayer in Congress was 
offered up by the rector of Christ Church, Mr. Duche, on the morn- 
ing after the false report had been received of the bombardment and 
destruction of Boston. The first Provincial Assembly also held its 
sittings here; it was occupied by the Britisli troops and next by the 
United States Bank and the Bank' of Pennsylvania in succession. 
The hall was built in 1770 as a meeting place for the house carpen- 
ters of Philadelphia. After its use by the first Continental Con- 
gress and tor other public purposes, the building, which was a sub- 
stantial two-story brick structure, passed into the hands of one 
tenant after another, until it degenerated into an auction room. 




•CARPENTERS' HALI.. 



86 

Then the company of carpenters retook possession, restored it as 
nearly as possible to the state it was in when the Continental 
Congress gathered within the walls of the structure and as our wel- 
come visitors daily see it. 

The walls have suspended upon them many curious and inter- 
esting mementos of the Revolutionary days, and the visitor will 
find much here to interest him. 



The Old Flag House. 

This quaint little structure wherein the first American flag was 
made by Betsy Ross, is located at 239 Arch street. An association 
is now engaged in the laudable effort to raise funds for its purchase 
and preservation. 

Historic Churches. 

The old Swedes Church, which stands on Swanson street (so 
named from the Swedish family who once owned all the land in 
that part of the city), below Christian, is one of the most venerable 
edifices in America. The first church upon the site was erected in 
1677. The present brick edifice was erected in 1700. 

Another sacred relic of Colonial times is Christ Church, on 
Second street, near Market, it was begun in 1727, and was finished 
by the raising of the steeple in 1754. Its chime of bells is among 
the oldest on this side of the Atlantic. When the British troops 
took Philadelphia, these bells, like others in the city, were removed 
to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy and being 
cast into cannon. They returned with the patriots, and have 
remained to peal forth their music ever since, in their time thev 
have summtjiied to worship some of the greatest men the countr_\- 
has produced. Washington was a regular worshiper at Christ 
Church when President of the United States, and many of the 
heroes and patriots of the "times that tried men's souls" rest in its 
vaults. 

A remarkable Re\'olutionary omen in the history of Christ 
Church was the fact that in 1776 a bayonet of lightning, like the 
lightning of American common sense, pierced and melted the golden 
crown of English King George on the church steeple. 



87 

The Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the 
Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. 

The great military higliway through Philadelphia during the 
war was between the steamer landing at the foot of Washington 
avenue and the P., W. & B. R. R. Depot at Broad and Prime streets. 
From the first few cups of coffee, offered to the passing soldiers by 
the patriotic housewives along this route, it was but a step to 
organized v/ork which began early in the spring of 1861 and con- 
tinued until peace again rested with us. The owners of a cooperage 
located at Otsego street and Washington avenue first tendered the 
use of a fire-place for making coffee. Then tables were spread and, 
a little later, these gentlemen, Messrs. Cooper & Pearce, together 
with Mr. Simpson, a friend, became the leading spirits in an organ- 
ization which occupied the whole establishment, dedicating it to the 
splendid work which has made it famous with the soldiers of the 
whole nation. Prompted by this enterprise, the Union Volunteer 
Refreshment Saloon was opened at Delaware and Washington 
avenues, and these two practical evidences of the fraternal spirit of 
Philadelphia worked in harmony, giving abundant meals to more 
than a million soldiers during the continuance of the war. The work 
was done by volunteer ladies and gentlemen, many of whom were 
from our most refined and wealthy families. Some sacrificed their 
lives in the arduous toil. Such was the fate of Miss Anna M. Ross, 
who had charge of the hospital connected with the cooper shop, and 
was also the founder of the Soldiers' Home, located first at Crown 
and Race streets and later at the State Arsenal, Sixteenth and Filbert 
streets. 

The rapidity with which the work was organized is best 
indicated by the fact that in the second month of the existence of the 
"Cooper Shop" it fed 21,764 men. Few of those who were active 
in this great labor of love are now among the living, but with the 
memory of the gratitude of those to whom they ministered — the 
stirring scenes, the enthusiasm, the pathos of those far-away years 
remain as a precious heritage, and the aged veterans — they have not 
forgotten. Many a comrade will find the time to look upon the spot 
where he was so kindly met by ministering angels as he went forth 
in his strength or came homeward shattered from battle, in the 
name of one of our most popular local posts (Anna M. Ross) he will 



recognize the reverence in wliich the memory of one of these heroines 
of ours is held among the comrades of this city and of the nation. 
The work at these institutions was continued four years and 




three months. At tlie hospital connected with the "Union" over 
eleven thousand soldiers were nursed, twenty thousand were given 
medicinr and fiirt\' thousand wvw lodued. At timos as many as 



89 

fifteen thousand passing troops were fed in a single day. The 
expense of this labor of love was nearly $130,000, all of which was 
contributed. 




Both institutions closed with fitting ceremonies up. 



m August S, 



1865. 



90 
The Great Sanitary Fair. 

This successful enterprise was lield under the auspices of the 
United States Sanitary Commission, which was originated in Phil- 
adelphia for the purpose of helping the soldiers in the camps and to 
which Philadelphia contributed nearly three times as much money 
as any other city ($860,306.85). 

The Sanitary Fair was opened upon June 7, 1864, and continued 
three weeks. The buildings erected for the purpose covered Logan 
Square, enclosing its wealth of trees, which formed a beautiful 
natural decorative feature. The profits of the Fair were $1,080,000. 



United States Mint. 

This building is modeled after the Grecian Ionic Temple at 
Athens. It is the principal place where the United States Govern- 
ment coins its gold and silver. It was erected in 1834, and has a 
front of 122 feet, with two wings 32 feet long. In the vestibule at 
the main entrance may be found persons connected with the insti- 
tution who conduct visitors through the establishment, showing 
them the deposit-room, where gold and silver is received and 
weighed; the copper-melting room, where the bars are prepared for 
coinage; the gold and silver melting-room, where that metal is cast 
into bars; the rolling and cutting-room, where the bars are rolled 
into proper form and cut into shape preparatory to stamping; the 
stamping or coining-room. These are all on the first floor. The 
visitor is then conducted to the second floor, where are several 
rooms, containing the largest and most valuable collection of coins 
and medals to be found in this country, some bearing date several 
thousand years before the Christian era. The "widow's mite" 
may be seen among the number of curious coins. There are several 
other departments that are not accessible to the public. Visitors 
are admitted every day, except Sunday, from nine o'clock to twelve 
in the morning. No fee or charge of any kind. The persons who 
conduct visitors are paid by the Government. They are nearl\- all 
members of the G. A. R. During the encampment the Mint will be 
open until 3 P. M. 

Tilt' magnificent new Mint building is in course of constrLiction 



91 

by the Government, upon Spring Garden street, west of Broad, and 
when completed, the present small and inadequate Mint will no 
doubt be removed to make room for some great building of traffic. 



The Grave of Franklin. 

Two blocks north of the G. A. R. Headquarters, at Fifth and 
Arch streets, is seen the 
grave of that sturdy Amer- 
ican, Benjamin Franklin, 
one of the most remark- 
able characters in the his- 
tory of the world. 



Fairmount Park. 

Fairmount Park is 
the largest public park in 
the world; it embraces 
within its domains 2,750 
acres, with natural scen- 
ery unsurpassed. Among 
the most prominent parks 
of the world may be men- 
tioned the Bois de Bou- 
logne, Paris, 2, 1 58 acres ; 
the Prater, Vienna, 2,500 
acres; Windsor Great 
Park, London, 1,800 acres; 
Richmond Hill, London, 
2,468 acres; Phcenix Park, 
D u b 1 in, 1,752 acres; 

Hampton Court, near London, 1,872 acres; Petit Park, Versailles, 
1,280 acres. These are the only parks out of many hundred whose 
extent exceed 1,000 acres. 

The park at Philadelphia takes its name from grand old Fair 
Mount, where was the first basin of the city's water supply, so 
beautifully situated that William Penn earl\"had his e\-es upon it 




GARFieirD MONUMKNT. 

EAST RIVER DRIVE, FAIRMOUNT I'AKK. 



92 



as a place of country residence. Its elevation is one hundred and 
ten feet above the river level. Fairmount has long lived in the 
memory of Philadelphians as a pleasant place and a resort for 
strangers who were bent upon sight-seeing. Here the water was 
pumped up to the basin by water wheels driven by the river itself; 
the first wheel started in 1822. The hill is divided into four reser- 
voirs, and they hold 26,996,636 gallons; they for a long time were 
the city's only supply. The architectural features have been 
greatly, improved since first laid out by the engineer, Frederick 
Graeff, whose marble bust within a Gothic canopy 
adorns the grounds. 

The park in its present dimensions 
was a work of time, and of much labor and 
thought upon the part of the public-spirited 
citizens of Philadelphia. Its formation was 
opposed at every step, being fraught with 
objections as to its great cost, the engineer- 
ing difficulties overcome, its deeply wooded 
vales, its hilly and rocky surface, the exist- 
ence of many fine estates and mansions of 
old families that were owners of the mag- 
nificent grounds, all of which were sought 
to be converted into the prospective finest 
park in the world. 

Within what is termed the East Park, 
commencing at Callowhill street bridge, 
are first the Water Works. The Graeff 
monument is located here. At Green street entrance is seen the 
splendid Washington Monument of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
The steamboat landing is a short distance beyond, above the 
dam, from which passage may be taken to the Zoological Gar- 
dens, Laurel Hill and Falls; fare ten'cents. But a short dis- 
tance, in sight, is the Lincoln Monument, Fountains, Gardens 
and Mineral Spring. Numerous boat-houses of exceeding beauty 
line the river bank at this point. Lemon Hill Mansion, on an 
eminence overlooking tlie cit\-, is a pleasant place to rest. The 
music pavilion is near the mansion. From this point to Girard 
avenue bridge are to be seen many objects of interest — among them 
the cottage which General Grant occupied at the siege of Richmond. 




t)N VVISSAHICKU.N DRINK. 



93 




At Girard avenue the footpath and main dri\'e unite. There is a 

beautiful river road commencing at Lincohi Monument, passing the 

boat-houses, the "Tarn O'Shanter" group of statuary, beneath 

overhanging rocks and vines, extending under bridges and through 

tunnels to the beautiful Wissahickon. The Garfield Memorial and 

new Equestrian Grant Monument are upon 

this drive. 

The Park, on the west side of the river, 

will ever be memorable as the location of the 

Centennial Buildings. There remain of these 

as permanent buildings the Memorial Hall and 

Horticultural Building. The former contains 

a valuable museum of many art objects and 

the latter one of the finest tropical displays in 

the world. 

There are a number of pieces of statuary 

in the grounds, gifts of individtials and socie- 
ties, mainly of the "Park Art Association," 

organized for this purpose. They embrace 

great men of the Revolution and of our own 

time; among them are Charles Carroll, of 

Carrollton; Commodore Barry, of the Revolutionary Navy, and 

Dr. Witherspoon. There are also statues of Washington, Grant, 

Garfield, Humboldt, Abraham Lincoln 
and General George Gordon Meade, 
Morton McMichael, Goethe and Schil- 
ler, a statue of Religious Liberty, and 
a statue of Columbus which is be- 
lieved to be the first erected in any 
part of the United States. The beau- 
tiful equestrian statue of Jeanne 
D'Arc, stands at the eastern approach 
to Girard avenue bridge. The cost 
of the grounds and subsequent im- 
provements have been about ten mil- 
lions of dollars. 
Many historic colonial buildings are preserved within the Park 

limits. An electric railway traverses the West Park, connecting 

with the east side at Strawberrv Mansion. 



VIEW IN WKST I'AKK. 




ON THE WISSAHICKON 



95 
Zoological Gardens. 

The Commissioners of Fairmount Park set aside in 1873 about 
thirty-three acres for the use of the Zoological Society. The land 
is beautifully located on the west side of the Schuylkill River, near 
Girard avenue bridge, in the midst of old forest trees. The buildings, 
of which there are many, are admirably arranged for comfort and 
convenience, and are probably the best to be found anywhere. 

The collection of animals and birds is very large, and comprise 
those generally found in menageries, and also many of a rare kind. 
The Carnivora House, containing the tigers, leopards, lions, hyenas, 
giraffes, etc., is the largest building. The elephants have a house 
devoted to their especial use. The Monkey House, to which the 
children delight to go, is well supplied. The Aviary contains a fme 
collection of birds. The Bison and Buffalo House is near the beau- 
tiful lake, and not far are the Bear Pits, where may be seen 
superior specimens of the black and cinnamon bear. The prairie 
dogs have their own little village, and the foxes, raccoons, wolves 
and rabbits each their separate pens. The Eagle Aviary is well 
supplied, and the deer enclosure contains a fine collection. There 
are also the sea lions, which are fed at 10.30 a. m. and 3.30 p. m. 
Many other pens and cages are placed about the grounds. 

The old Penn Mansion, erected by John Penn in 1785, and 
called by him "Solitude," is within the Gardens, and worthy of 
inspection. The Zoological Gardens may be reached by Girard 
avenue cars. The Gardens are open every day in the week, from 
9 a. m. to sunset. Admission, 25 cents; tickets at the gate. 

The Academy of Fine Arts. 

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is the oldest art insti- 
tution in America, -it was founded in 1805 and chartered the next 
year. The germ from which it sprang had its existence in 1791, 
when Charles Wilson Peale attempted to organize in Philadelphia a 
school for the fine arts. The scheme, although supported by Cer- 
acchi, the Italian sculptor, then in this country, William Rush and 
other artists, was not successful, but out of it came, in 1794, the Col- 
umbianum, and in that year was held, in independence Hall, by the 
association, the first public exhibition of paintings in this city. 



96 

The special purpose of the school has always been to afford 
facilities and instruction of the highest order to students who intend 
to make painting or sculpture their profession. No advantages but 
those of pure art education are offered, work comprising study in 
black and white from the antique casts; lectures in perspective, 
composition and anatomy, combined with practical work in each of 
the subjects; color study from still life; elementary modeling from 
the cast; and study from living model, nude and draped, in black 
and white, in color, and in clay modeling. 

The instruction is of the most advanced character, and is con- 
ducted by means of lectures. The galleries of the Academy will be 
open free to visitors during the encampment. 

Philadelphia's Ship Building Supremacy. 

The picturesque canoes of the aboriginal Indian have given 
way to the ocean greyhounds of civilization. The famous "Black 
Ball Liner" has paid obeisance to the age of steam and steel, and 
again the side-wheeler of the lakes gives place to the twin-screw of 
the nineteenth century, with its propelling force of twenty miles 
per hour in all weathers. The first ship-building yard seems, 
according to the records of the city, to have been established during 
the earlier portion of the eighteenth century, and was located in the 
neighborhood of the present foot of South street. The great impetus 
given to Philadelphia ship-building interests may be safely dated 
at the close of the war of independence, which had well nigh wholly 
depleted the Colonial navy. From that period it may be said that 
a supremacy has been claimed and maintained by this city in all 
matters affecting naval architecture, and in these later days marine 
engineering. The gradations in this industry from wood to iron 
and from canvas to steam serially considered, lead your eye up 
to where Penn's statue looks to the colossal plant reared by 
William Cramp and his sons. Starting in a modest way in 1829, 
the Cramps saw their enterprise grow as year followed year, till 
to-day their name gives fame to Philadelphia as the first ship-build- 
ing city on the American Continent. 

The magnitude of the ship building plant now conducted at the 
Cramp yards can only be realized by a personal visit. During the 
Encampment the yards will be open every day to visiting comrades. 



97 
Our Hxport Interests. 

Philadelphia is the centre at the present time of a ^reat and 
intelligently conducted movement looking toward a comprehensive 
and permanent foreign trade. This line of effort had its beginning 
in the Pan-American Conference of a half dozen years ago, which 
was so earnestly fostered and guided by the late Hon. James G. 
Blaine, it was halted for a time by adverse political conditions, 
but under the sunlight of renewed prosperity and favorable legisla- 
tion, it has again become the leading thought with our great manu- 
facturers. 

The city of Philadelphia organized the now famous Commercial 
Museums, which, although still in temporary quarters, contain the 
most valuable and concrete collection of raw and nicuuifactured 
products of the nations e\er brought together for the instruction of 
the busy world. The extensive exposition about to be opened in 
West Philadelphia near the University of Pennsylvania will intro- 
duce this collection to many thousands to whom it is vet unknown, 
and the great buildings which are to be permanent will hereafter 
contain this and added collections, together with every possible 
form of information which will enable the American workman to 
produce the goods required by tlie people of other lands. It will, in 
fact, become the University of Commerce, and as such, will attract 
the wide-awake manufacturers of every city in the land. 

The headquarters of the National Association of Manufacturers 
is located here, where the idea of sucli an organization first took 
form. Regarding the work of this body, the Philadelphia "Times" 
recently said : 

"it was four years ago, just as the export mo\ement was 
beginning to manifest itself, that the manufacturers of the United 
States, in response to a very widely-expressed desire for the exist- 
ence of some organization which should represent all branches of 
industry, assembled in Cincinnati and organized the National Asso- 
ciation of Manufacturers, electing as the first president Mr. Thomas 
Dolan. After a year in the presidency, during which time the 
association got a good start, Mr. Dolan was succeeded by Mr. Theo- 
dore C. Search, whose administration of the affairs of this associa- 
tion has marked him as one of the broadest and most energetic of 
Philadelphia's many manufacturers. Although not organized 



98 

primarily as an export association, the conditions prevailing for 
three years past have compelled the devotion of the largest share of 
its energy toward the extension of the foreign commerce of the 
country, and in this work its efforts have reached the most distant 
markets of the world. 

The Splendor of Our Suburbs. 

As truly as "the glory of a woman is her hair," the pride of a 
city like Philadelphia is in the cordon of lovely country settlements 
which encircle her brow like a diadem. Many electric and steam 
lines make speedy runs between these shady, refined retreats and 
the heart of the city. These nearby residence sections are threaded 
by a maze of well-graded and picturesque drives, and the splendor 
of many of these rural estates is impressive. 

Andalusia and Torresdale are reached via the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, the Bristol Electric Line and the up-river steamboats. Pel- 
ham, Wissahickon Heights and Chestnut Hill are all at the further 
extreme of Germantown. 

Along the New York Division of the Philadelphia and Reading 
Railway are Logan, Oak Lane, Elkins, Ogontz Park, Wyncote and 
Jenkintown. In the vicinity of the Chelten Hills, as this district 
is called, are several of the costliest private homes in America. 

Along the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad are such 
well-known settlements as Overbrook, Narberth, Ardmore, Bryn 
Mawr, St. David's, Wayne and Radnor. To the southwest are 
Llanerch, upon the West Chester Pike, and Swarthmore and Lans- 
downe, upon Baltimore Pike, reached by the "Central Division" 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Darby district and the hills 
aloiiLi pretty Darby Creek is a popular neighborhood, while o\er in 
New Jersey beyond Camden many aftluent business men have 
located their homes. 

The semi-rural character of West Pliiladelphia has attracted 
thousands of families from the old city. This is especially true of 
the beautiful district to the southwest, reached by the Chester 
avenue cars, and of the modern operations bordering upon the West 
Park. 

No visitor to our city can claim to ha\e fairly gained an idea of 
Philadelphia's home life luitil he has visited some of these attrac- 
tive outer points. 



99 



Great Passenger Terminals. 




READINC. RAILWAY TICRMINAL 



In no city of the world are there such magnificent railroau 
terminals as exist in Philadelphia. The Broad Street Station of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad has been a model of a perfect railroad building 
for a score of years, but it has now been succeeded by a greater and 
much more commodious structure, imposing in 
appearance and more perfect in its arrange- 
ments than the old. This and the magnificent 
new Martcet Street Station of the Philadelphia 
& Reading Railway are the largest in the 
world. Philadelphia, therefore, has the two 
greatest passenger terminals built, beautiful 
alike in grandeur and architectural features, 
and as complete as the suggestions of expe- 
rienced railroad men could make them. 

Another passenger terminal, not as large 
as those of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia 
& Reading Railroads, is that of the Baltimore 
& Ohio Railroad, at Twenty-fourth and Chest- 
nut streets. It is of sufficient size to accommodate the growth of 
the business of this trunk line for several years, and is not lacking 
in all the conveniences for passengers and trains known to modern 
railroading. All of the great passenger stations are located within 
the heart of the city on the main artery 
of traffic and close to the centres of 
every line of trade. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad Station 
is at Broad and Market streets, directly 
opposite Philadelphia's magnificent new 
City Hall, its style of architecture is 
modern Gothic, harmonizing with the 
old station familiar to visitors to the 

Quaker City. An average of 60,000 people arrive and depart 
from this station every day in the year, and 530 scheduled trains 
daily, with rarely a trifling accident, is the proud record of this 
great terminal. Between 4 and 7 p. m., every week-day, titty 
trains arrive and eighty depart. The enormous aggregate of over 
twenty million passengers go and come at this station in a single 
year. 




HALTIMORK .S: CIIIO KAILKOAU STATION. 



lOO 

The Market Street Station of the Philadelpliia & Reading Rail- 
way was opened to traffic on January 20, 1893, Its style of arclii- 
tecture is composite renaissance, a style never before adopted for a 
great raih'oad terminal. On Market street the station front is 266 
feet, with a depth of 107 feet on Twelfth street. The building is eight 
stories high and its facade is impressive and magnificent. The 
building is one of the architectural ornaments of the city. Two 
liundred and ninety regular trains arrive and depart at this terminal 
daily. 



Philadelphia Commercial Museum and the National Hxport 

hxposition. 

The Philadelphia Economic and Commercial Museum is a 
municipal institution established by the city of Philadelphia. 




MAIN IUTIM)IN(;, NATIONAL I'.Xl'ORT EXPOSITION. 



The Museum consists of collections of natural products from all 
the countries of the world which have already entered our markets, 
or which may be made available for them, together with samples 
and cases of manufactined products from foreign countries, which 
ma\' serx'e as aids to our manufacturers. 



lOI 

The Objects of the Institution. 

1. To bring before our manutactuicrs, dealers and Cdn.sumers all 
the varied products of the world, that they may make the best 
selection for their own special interests. 

2. To publish all possible scientific and useful informatidu con- 
cerning these products which may aid the manufacturer and con- 
sumer in his choice, 

3. To place on exhibition manufactured articles and samples, 
with full information from all markets which we ought to enter or 




AGRICUI.TURAL IMPI.EMKNT, VKHICI-E AND Fl"RXrTrRl-; Htai.I >IN< '. 
NATIONAL KXPORT EXPOSlTrON. 



control, and to furnish useful information concerning opportunities 
in foreign lands to our merchants and manufacturers. 

The most important parts of the exhibits from Mexico, Central 
and South America, Australia, South Africa and many Asiatic coun- 
tries at the World's Columbian Exposition, were, at its close, 
removed to Philadelphia. Similar products from all other countries 
have been secured, and are being rapidly added to the collections. 

The importance of this collection and arrangement of informa- 
tion and objects as a business accessory has given it a world-wide 
reputation. This will be widely increased by the remarkable 
National Export Exposition, which, under tlu' auspice^ of the 



102 

Museum management, is to open here in September and continue 
for ten weeks. The great buildings which have been erected for 
the purpose near the grounds of the University of Pennsylvania are 
mainly to be permanent and to become the permanent place of 
exhibit for the Museum collection. Merchants and manufacturers 
will throng here to study the great question of trade with the outer 
world. The ultimate influence of this undertaking upon the trade 
of the future cannot be predicted with any degree of certainty. 



The Philadelphia Bourse. 

This recent and notable addition to the city's facilities for con- 
ducting business occupies a space north of Chestnut street and 
between Fourth and Fifth streets. It should be visited by all 
strangers and comrades. The proceedings upon the "floor" may be 
viewed from the gallery, second story. The basement and seventh 
floors contain permanent exhibitions of machinery and domestic 
products. A fine restaurant occupies the eighth floor. The Trades 
League, Maritime Exchange, Board of Trade, Commercial Exchange, 
Lumber, Drug and other Exchanges, National Association of Manu- 
facturers and other business bodies are located in the Bourse. 








PRICELESS RELICS. 

A LL, or nearly all, of the numerous Post rooms of Philadel- 
/\ phia contain priceless relics of the great war out of which 
/ — \ the Order was born. Foremost among the torn and 
battered jetsam which the storm of battle cast upon the 
shore of time to be picked up and cherished by loving and patriotic 
survivors are the many flags which are seen once every year upon 
our streets. But in addition to these are a great variety of objects, 
generally carefully arranged and labeled, which are associated with 
the far-away days of the march, the camp and the onslaught of war- 
fare. Visiting comrades will find members of the Posts willing and 
anxious at all times to exhibit these treasures. 

Post I. — Of the large collection of relics and souvenirs which 
adorn the six thousand square feet of wall space of George G. Meade 
Post Hall, those holding the deepest interest are the twenty-six furled 
battle flags, each with its illuminating story of blood and suffering, 
of that patriotism, valor and pathos that has become a part of the 
magnificent history of the Boys in Blue who battled to preserve to 
posterity our one country and one flag. And there, too, hang life- 
like reproductions on canvas, keeping a silent watch over these 
prized emblems of liberty, the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Grant, 
Sherman, Meade and others of our noted Generals, of whom Grant 
was a member of the Post, and others have been its honored 
guests. 

Busts, statues and carvings occupy every corner of the spacious 
rooms, among which the most valued, by the comrades, is the pre- 
served bust of "Old Baldy," General Meade's veteran war horse, 
with his marvelous record and two visible wounds on nose and neck. 
The flags that waved over the Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloon, 
recalling precious recollections of the hospitality and love of Phila- 
delphia's heroic women. These relics all possess an intrinsic value 
and will become more valuable as the years come and go, for soon 
they will be the only remaining object-lessons of the dangers, hard- 
ship and suffering endured by the comrades for the joy of the coming 
generations. 



104 

Post 2. — Tile Portrait and Relic Committee of Post 2 furnish 
the follovvinw description of the famous collection owned bv this large 
and representative Post: 

Within our walls may be seen relics from most of the battle- 
fields of the Rebellion. They consist of muskets, sabres, pistols, 
cartridges, uniforms worn by individuals, both oftkers and privates. 

The first greeting on entering the threshold is the capstan of the 
battleship "Hartford," also photographs of the White Squadron; 
directly to your right is the library, consisting of over two thousand 
volumes, divided into two divisions, military and miscellaneous. 
Coming out, you go directly east and are ushered' into the principal 
war relic room, 41 by 45 feet;, here will be found six glass-covered 
cases containing valuable relics, loaned and deposited by comrades 
of the Post, which all have a history; one of these cases contains 
Confederate relics, another a collection of medals (made at the Phil- 
adelphia Mint) of all the Presidents of the United States of America, 
as well as the principal Generals who commanded the armies. 

The walls of this room are entirely covered with pictures and 
photographs pertaining to the war. 

in this room is to be found relics from the U. S. S. "Maine" 
which were on board when she was blown up at Havana; this Post 
has also in their possession a United States flag taken from the 
"Maine" after the explosion. 

At the eastern end of this room is the gun-case of the Veteran 
Guard, containing forty musk'ets used by them on parades and also 
in \'olley firings over the graves of their comrades. 

The fire-place is a great attraction, especially in winter. The 
burning logs give forth a cheerful glow, and are productive of 
thought. It is the centre of attraction, especially when the janitor 
presides with his never-ending supply of witty stories. It recalls 
many stories of old times. 

You then enter another room known as the Guards' Room. 
This Guard is composed of forty members, who are veterans, from 
all branches of the service, from generals down to privates. Each 
guard has a closet, in which are to be found his uniform, which 
consists of shako, white dress coat, blouse, pants, overgaiters, 
fatigue undress cap and skull-cap for dress. This Guard is a notice- 
able feature in the Post. 

You then proceed upstairs to the main floor, and tlu- first attrac- 



105 

tion is a genuine army mule's iiead, made to it-present liim sticking 
his liead out of a stable window. You tlien turn to your right and 
go through the ante-room, where the officers each have a closet tor 
their uniforms; this room is nicely carpeted and decorated with 
valuable pictures and paintings. Turning again to your right, you 
are ushered into the main hall. It is truly said of this room, it is 
unsurpassed of its kind. The writer cannot convey in words its 
grandeur; it must be seen to be appreciated. Some of its main 
features are the chandelier in the centre of the room. On its walls 
are all of the principal corps commanders in oil. The oil painting of 
tile "Private Soldier," lite size, reminds one of old times. You can 
almost hear him call out, "Who goes there?" The windows are 
stained glass, and each has two corps marks nicely arranged in 
them. Gracefully grouped on either side of this room is twenty- 
eight battle flags, all with a history. The Commander's desk is 
nicely arranged so that it commands a full view of the whole room, 
and to his right and left are situated the Adjutant and Quarter- 
master. The orchestra are raised one foot from the floor on a plat- 
form railed in; they are members of the Post and dispense choice 
selections on all occasions. The parlor is upholstered in plush and 
is the attraction for the ladies. 

Post No. 5 owns the building in which it meets each Tuesday 
evening, it is valued at $32,000. in their relic case is the flag 
presented to the Sumter Guards of Charleston, S. C, May, 1861. 
They have a number of swords belonging to Union and Confederate 
officers, with a large collection of muskets, shells, bullets, etc. 

Post 6.— Ellis Post, No. 6, is in historic Germantown, one mile 
from the old battlefield. The Town Hall, in which the Post meets, 
is on ground traveled over by Washington and his troops. During 
the Civil War was used as a hospital for wounded and sick soldiers. 
The Post has relics of the battle of Germantown, a miniature 
stockade of Andersonville made of wood from the stockade, also a 
log from the stockade, relics from most all the battlefields, and has 
also one of the flags that covered the remains of General U. S. 
Grant. 

Post/.— This Post is on the third floor of Dicke'sHall, entrance 
on Eyre street. The Post room, 90 by 40 feet, is handsomelv fur- 
nished, and some of the finest crayons of Generals Grant, Sherman, 
Sheridan and Captain Walter S. Newhall deck the walls. The relics 



io6 

of the Rebellion are two battle flags, one twelve-pound brass how- 
itzer from Admiral Farragut's flagship, "Hartford," a tower musket 
captured from a rebel at Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, 
also a lot of muskets from different battlefields in Virginia, and last, 
but not least, the ball from the top of the flag-pole from the Volunteer 
Refreshment Saloon. 

Post 18. — This Post has in its collection the bell of the rebel 
ram, "Merrimac," a fine array of weapons and other trophies of the 
battlefield and a stand of colors presented to the Twenty-third Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, by ladies of Philadelphia. 

Post 35. — This centrally located Post of the cavalry branch has 
the usual variety of relics, but in its celebrated "Balky Horse" 
possesses one unique attraction. This interesting object is com- 
posed of carbines, sabres, revolvers, cartridge-boxes and other 
cavalry trappings contributed by members. It was built for the 
Post by Mr. William Spang, the artist. 

Post 55. — This- representative suburban Post has spacious 
quarters in Frankford. Its collection of guns, swords, pieces of wood 
from historic points and numerous other articles contributed by 
comrades is large and valuable. One specimen is a rebel flint-lock 
musket from Bull Run. The Post has also a fine library. 

Post 191. — The Post room is situated on the first floor of the 
historic old building on the southwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut 
streets, in which the first Supreme Court held its session in 1791 ; 
later used as the City Hall. There are quite a number of pictures 
on the walls, representing the original Commander of the Pennsyl- 
vania Reserve Corps, General George A. McCall, General John F. 
Reynolds, the First Brigade; General George G. Meade, the Second 
Brigade, and General Ord, the Third Brigade, being the original 
commanders of the brigades. A fine picture of ex-Governor A. G. 
Curtin ; also pictures of General McCandless, General Kane, Col- 
onels Seneca G. Simmons, Patrick McDonough, McCalmont, Sickles, 
Taggart, Woolworth, General John P. Taylor, General McClellan, 
Captain John Taylor, Cienerals Grant and Garfield and Abraham 
Lincoln, with many more of historical interest, together with 
battle flags of the Second and Fourth Regiments P. R. V. C, and 
many relics of interest to visitors and old soldiers in general, 
particularly to those who served in one of the regiments of Penn- 
sylvania Reserves. 



I07 

Post 275. — This Post is located on the finest avenue in Phila- 
delphia, occupying two halls, and have among their relics several 
large oil paintings ,of camp scenes, also a chart and engraving of 




"THE BALKV HORSIi " Ol I'OST 35, O. A. K. 
(Composed oi cavalry accoutrements, relics of the War of the RchelHo.i 1 

Andersonville Prison, showing the sufferings ot our comrades in 
that unfortunate prison pen. It is a valuahle curiosity, as very few 
of the engravings were printed. There are also many other things 
to interest our visiting comrades. 



io8 

Post 46. — This Post was organized June 17, 1874, ^^'i*-' ''"^^■'^ 
mustered in since its organization over seven hundred and fifty 
comrades and now has 125 in good standing. The Post hall is 
situated at 730 and 732 Soutli Broad street, one of the largest and 
finest halls in the city; is furnished throughout with solid blacl< 
walnut furniture; is handsomely carpeted, has library case contain- 
ing over one thousand volumes and many handsome and historical 
paintings on its walls; is rich in relics of the Civil and other wars, 
among' which may he mentioned the signal flag of the pirate 
"Alabama," a captured Confederate battle flag, chair from Wash- 
ington's headquarters at Valley Forge, cartridge boxes from the 
battlefields of Virginia, also solid shot and shells and many interest- 
ing relics from the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, 
also a sword presented bv the privates and non-commissioned 
officers of the Ninety-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers to 
Colonel Cus W. Town, after whom the Post is named, and who was 
killed leading his regiment at Salem Heights, May 3, 1863, and 
swords used during the Revolutionary War; pictures of the old 
Volunteer and Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloons, also the Sanitary 
Fair, held in Logan Square, 1864, also very fine model of the U. S. 
man-of-war " Constitqtion," over seven feet long; silver bust of 
General Sherman, presented by him to Surgeon Bradly, U. S. A., 
in 1865, and by him to the Post; also cannon used by Colonel John 
K. Murphy, of the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, to fire 
salutes in Independence Square before the Civil War. Comrades 
welcome at all times. 

Anna M. Ross Post, No. 94. — Located at southeast corner of 
Hutchinson street and Girard avenue, east of Tenth street. Own 
the building and some of the adjoining property valued at $26,500. 
Have in possession the gate that was at the Cooper Shop Refresh- 
ment Saloon during the war of 1861-65, where numerous regiments 
were fed while on the way to the seat of war; also tlie keystone 
of doorway of Cooper Shop Hospital, where Miss Anna M. Ross 
took a prominent part; a large collection of Continental money; 
Masonic apron fnund in a tin box near Petersburg, Va., by one of 
the colored troops; numerous relics from Gettysburg; piece of the 
elm tree under which the treaty of William Penn was signed. 



GIRARD COLLEGE. 

STEPHEN GIRARD was born in Bordeaux, France, May 20, 
1750. He be;^an life for himself by going to sea as a cabin- 
boy and part owner of a sailing vessel at the age of four- 
teen ; and was so successful as a mariner that he 
determined to follow the sea for a living. In due time he becamt- 
a merchant and was equally successful in merchandisf. Later in 
]ife he became a banker. His success as a banker may be inferred 
from the fact that at his death he left an estate, the estimated \alue 
of which was ^6,000,000, being the richest or second richest man 
in the United States. He died December 26, 1831, leaving neither 
widow nor children. The bulk of his large fortune he bequeathed 
for the endowment of a " permanent college " for the education and 
maintenance of "poor, white, male orphans." These orphans are 
admitted to the College between the ages of six and ten years, and 
those " who shall merit it shall remain in the College until they shall 
respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age." 
The founder directs that they shall be " instructed in the various 
branches of a sound education, comprehending reading, writing, 
grammar, arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, practical 
mathematics, astronomy, natural, chemical and experimental philoso- 
phy, the French and Spanish languages, and other such learning and 
science as the capacities of the several scholars ma\- merit or war- 
rant." 

The corner-stone of the College was laid July 4, 1833, and the 
first five buildings were completed in December, 1847. 'I"he insti- 
tution was opened January i, 1848, with one hundred pupils. The 
number of boys has grown from one hundred, in January, 1848, to 
fifteen hundred in January, 1899; and the staff of teachers and 
officers from seventeen to one hundred and sixteen ; and the number 
of buildings from five to fourteen. Since the opening of the school 
there have been admitted 6,167 pupils. 

The affairs of the College and of the (lirard Estate ar»r under 
the supervision of the Board of Directors of City Trusts, com- 
posed of fifteen members, including the mayor of tlie city and the 

109 



I 10 



presidents of Select and Common Councils. The other twelve are 
chosen for life by a hoard of appointment composed of the twelve 
judges of the Courts of Common Pleas. 

It is greatly to the credit of this board of management that the 
endowment fund has increased from an estimated value of 




(ilKARD COI^LEGE, MAIN BUILDING. 



$6,000,000 to an estimated value of nearly $30,000,000, from which 
the net annual income is now, in round numbers, $900,000. 



Board of Directors of City Trusts. 



Louis Wagner, 

President. 

Alexander Biddle, 
Edward S: Buckley, 
John M. Campbell, 
Benjamin B. Comegys, 
John H. Converse, 



Joseph L. Caven, 

l^ice-Piesideiit. 

John K. Cuming, 
William L. Hlkins, 
John H. Michener, 
Dallas Sanders, 
Hdwin S. Stuart. 



Members of I he Board " Ex-offido." 
Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mayor. 
James L. Miles, President Setect Coiuicil. 
Wencel Hartman, President Common Council. 



Ill 



In addition to the sub- 
as designated by the foun- 
introduced from time to 
ing, including Sloyd and 
ing, vocal music, phonog- 
writing, calisthenics and 

The Girard College 
nearly five hundred rifles, 
corps, is an important and 
of the institution. All the 
ception of the commandant. 
College. There are com- 
the week, with battalion 
rade on Friday after- 
week during spring, 
autumn. 



President of the College, 

ADAM H. FETTEROLF, 

Ph. D., LL. D. 




jects to be taught 
der, there have been 
time manual train- 
mechanical dravv- 
y raphy and type- 
free-hand drawing. 
Cadets, numbering 
with band and drum 
interesting feature 
(iftlcers, with the ex- 
are pupils of the 
pany drills twice in 
drill and dress pa- 
noon of each 
s u m m e r a n d 



yice PresiJ.'ut, 

w. D. Sheldon, 
A M. 




STEPHEN GIRARD STATUE, CITV HAI.I, I-I,AZA. 




devil's pool, WISSAHICKON, KAIUMOUNT I'AKK. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

THH University of Pennsylvania is the result of a clearly 
recognized educational necessity, and stands as a repre- 
sentative of the early generous impulses of the colony 
toward iiigher education. 

The Executive Council proposed, November 17, 1683, "that 
care be taken about the learning and instruction of youth, to wit: a 
school of Arts and Sciences; " and in i68g such a scliool was founded 
as the Public Grammar School in Philadelphia, and chartered in 1697 
as the William Penn Charter School, on the plan of the Hnglish Free 
School. 

After the vicissitudes of the early eighteenth centur\-, with 
denominational schools in various localities, the idea of the free 
school again took shape as the Charitable School, established in 
Philadelphia by a number of citizens in 1740. 

In 1743 Benjamin Franklin drew up a plan for establishing an 
Academy, and in 1749, after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, published 
his ideas in a pamphlet entitled " Proposals relating to the Education 
of Youth in Pennsylvania." The Common Council agreed to give to 
the enterprise £200 in cash, £150 per annum for five years, and £50 
for the right of sending one scholar each year from the Charitable 
School. 

The Academy was formally opened in 175 1, with the Latin. 
English and Mathematical Schools. After the reorganization in 
1753, the Latin and Philosophical Schools were spoken of as "The 
College." 

The Medical School Founded. 

Desultory lectures or Courses of Lectures on Medicine had been 
given by Dr. Cadwalader in Philadelphia soon after 1751. and b\' 
Dr. William Shippen as early as November 26, 1762. Dr. Morgan, 
while abroad, had an understanding with Dr. Shippen that the\- 
would make an effort to establish a medical school upon his return. 
Accordingly, he proposed to the Board of Trustees the introduction 
of a medical professorship into the College. On Ma>- 2, 176=;. the 

8 113 



i'4 

Board considered this proposition and elected him Professor of the 
Theory and Practice of Medicine; thus establishing iJie first medical 
school in America. 

The University of the State of Pennsylvania. 

After the reopening of the College, which had been closed 
during the British occupation, the General Assembly began to 
interfere with the affairs of the College, and on November 27, 1779, 
created a new corporation, under the title of the "'Trustees of the 
University of the State of Pennsylvania," abrogating thereby the 
charters of 1753 and 1755. The College continued with Dr. 
Smith as its Provost; and thus the two institutions operated for a 
time as unfriendly rivals. 

The Assembly passed the Act of September 31, 1791, uniting 
the University of the State of Pennsylvania and the College, 
Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia, creating a new 
corporation, to be known as the "Trustees of the University of 
Pennsylvania," with the three departments (exclusive of the 
Charitable School) of Arts, Law and Medicine. The Department 
of Arts included five separate schools: the Philosophy School, 
including Natural and Moral Philosophy; the Grammar School, 
including Latin and Greek; the Mathematical School; the English 
School; and the German School, conducted by a German professor, 
who taught, also, Oriental Languages. This was the first German 
professorship in America. 

The Law School Founded. 

The first professors Jiip of Law in America was established in the 
College in 1790. Justice James Wilson, of the Supreme Court of 
the United States, was elected to fill this professorship. The Law 
School was formally opened December 15, 1790. President Wash- 
ington, the members of the Cabinet, Members of both Houses of 
Congress, the Judges of the Courts, and State and City Officials, 
as well as Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Bingham and other ladies of note, 
were present at the inaugural ceremonies. 

The University in the Nineteenth Century. 

In the month of March, 1800, the University purchased, for 
41,650, the building which had been erected with moneys appro- 



115 



priated by the Legislature on the site at present occupied by the 
Post Office, and moved into these quarters in the Spring of 1802, 
where they remained until the removal of the University to its 
present site in 1871. 

in 1 8 10 there was a reorganization of classes, doing away with 
the so-called schools, and arranging the students into Freshman, 
Junior and Senior classes. In 1816 the Department of Natural 
Science was created by the Board of Trustees, embracing instruction 
in I^atural Philosophy, Botany, Natural History, Mineralogy, Chem- 
istry Applied to Agriculture and the Arts, and Comparative Anatom\', 
with a corps of five 
professors. Provost 
Ludlow completed 
the revival of the 
Law School during 
his Provostship, 
under the influence 
of Judge Sharswood. 
Dr. Goodwin, while 
Provost, was instru- 
mental in organizing 
the Auxiliary De- 
partment of Medi- 
c i n e, founded 
through the generos- 
ity of Dr. George B. 
Wood in 1865. 

With the elec- 
tion of Dr. Stille as Provost, July 5, 1858, began a mort^ pro- 
nounced effort to reorganize the University. Provost Stille says, 
in his reminiscences: "My ambition at that time was to follow 
in the footsteps of Presidents Elliott, White and McCosh, who 
were then organizing, on a most liberal scale, 'the new education 
at Harvard, Cornell and Princeton.'" Provost Stille set about 
raising funds for the establishment of a scientific school. The crea- 
tion of the Department of Natural Sciences in 1816 had been followed 
in 1850 by the establishment of the Department of Chemistry, as 
applied to arts, and in 1852, by the founding of a School of Mines, 
Arts and Manufactures. This loosely organized effort in the direc- 
tion of a scientific school continued until 1864. 




COLLKGK HAUL 



ii6 

In 1862, the University made provision tor instruction in agricul- 
ture, calling the department the "College of Agriculture, Mines, 
Arts and the Mechanical Arts." Failing to secure the public funds, 
the Unix'ersity then made a general appeal to the public for a 
$500,000 endowment fund. But at the suggestion of Mr. Nathaniel 
B. Browne, the University was enabled to purchase of the city a 
portion of the Almshouse Farm, thus acquiring a site for the new 
development of the University. Upon this land the construction of 
College Hall was begun in June of 1871, and the hall was dedicated 
September, ]872. 

The University Hospital Founded. 
With the removal of the College to West Philadelphia came 
also the suggestion of moving the Medical School, but this necessi- 
tated new hospital facilities. The Medical alumni recommended 
the foundation of a hospital. The Trustees appropriated a site on 
the newly accjuired ground; private contributions were made for 
the Hospital, and the Legislature appropriated, in April, 1872, 
;5 100,000 for the purpose, on condition that $250,000 additional 
should be raised. In May, 1872, Councils made a grant of 
five and one-half acres of city land, in addition to the original site. 
When the $350,000 were raised another appeal was made to the 
Legislature by the Judges of the Supreme and City Courts and 
other citizens for an additional $100,000 on the condition that the 
University should raise an equal amount. The money was brought 
together, and a new hospital opened for patients July 5, 1874. 

The Towne Scientific School. 
After many fruitless efforts in the direction of a Natural Science 
Department, the University was finally enabled, through the gener- 
osity of John Henry Towne, a Trustee, to establish the "Towne 
Scientific School," out of the old Department of Science, in 1875. 

The Department of Dentistry. 
In 1839 an attempt was made to organize the Baltimore College 
of Dental Surgery ; in 1845 the Ohio Dental College was estab- 
lisheLl in Cincinnati; in 1850 the TranssyK'ania School of Den- 
tistry, in Kentucky, and in 1852 the New York College of Dental 
Surgery, at Syracuse, 



117 



As early as May, 18^0, the Philadelphia College ut Dental 
Surgery was chartered, and the charter was renewed in 1856 as the 
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. 

The tu'st real department of dentistry connected with an 
American university was that of the Harvard Dental School, 1867. 
This was followed by the Dental College of the University of 
Michigan, 1875, 
and the effort to 
organize a depart- 
ment of dentistry 
of the University 
of Pennsylvania, 
1878. 

The Dental 
Department was 
housed in the La- 
boratory building 
of the Medical 
Department until 
1898, when it was 
transferred to the 
new Dental Hall, 
on Locust street, 
west of Thirty- 
third. The new 

Dental Hall when constructed was in advance of the dental equip- 
ment of all other American universities. 

Dr. William Pepper's Provostship. 
In 1880 Dr. Stille resigned the Provostship, and February 22, 
1881, Dr. William Pepper was inaugurated as Provost of the Univer- 
sity. The prosperity and growth of the University during the 
administration of Provost Stille were to assume even more extensive 
proportions under Provost Pepper. 

The Wharton School or Finance and FcoNO.v\^. 
in his inaugural address Provost Pepper announced the purpose 
of Mr. Joseph Wharton to found a School of Finance and Economy 
in the University of Pennsylvania. The Wharton School of Finance 




THK IJBRARV. 



ii8 

and Economy was opened in 1883. The amount of Mr. Wharton's 
gift was $100,000. 

About this time Provost Pepper secured from the City Councils 
fourteen acres of the "Poor Farm" for the sum of $100,000, and the 
establishment of fifty perpetual prize scholarships for students from 
the public schools of Philadelphia, and Mr. Henry Seybert left the 
University $120,000, which was divided equally between a ward 
for chronic diseases and the Seybert Chair of Philosophy. Mr. 
Henry C. Gibson gave $85,000 for a building for chronic diseases. 

The Veterinary Department. 

The suggestion of a veterinary school in the University was 
made by Dr. Benjamin Rush, in 1806. The plea of Dr. Rush took 
the form of a money estimate of the value of domestic animals lost 
through diseases in the United States. November 14, 1882, Mr. J. 
B. Lippincott donated $10,000 in first mortgage bonds "to establish 
a Veterinary Department under the control of the University of 
Pennsylvania." February i, 1883, Mr. J. E. Gillingham gave 
$10,000 to the Department; and on March 6, 1883, the Chair of 
Anatomy and Pathology was created. Mr. Lippincott made another 
donation of $10,000 in December, conditioned by the raising of 
$15,000 by subscription. The Veterinary Department was opened 
October 2, 1884. Since the death of Mr. Lippincott, in 1886, his 
children have sustained the department. In 1887 the Legislature of 
the State appropriated $25,000 to the Veterinary Hospital, condi- 
tioned upon the establishment of twelve free scholarships to be filled 
by appointees of the Governor. 

The Biological School. 

The roots of the Biological School run far back' into the eight- 
eenth century. In 1728 Mr. Bartram established his Botanical 
Garden, which continues to be one of the most interesting in 
America and which was recently restored under the direction of the 
University. In 1778 Dr. Adam Kuhn, a pupil of Linneaus, was 
appointed botanical professor in the University of Pennsylvania 
— the first in America. The teaching of botany was continued at 
the University by Dr. Barton at the beginning of this century, who 
published the first elementary work on botany. At the request of 



119 



Dr. Barton, the Legislature of Pennsylvania granted, March ig, 
1805, the sum of $3,000 "to establish a garden for the improvement 
of the science of botan}/. " Twelve acres of ground were purchased 
for the botanical garden in 1817. On October 4, 1818, the faculty 
of Natural History was constituted by the creation of professor- 
ships of Botany, and Horticulture, Natural History, including 
Geology, Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, and of Mineralogy 
and Chemistry as Applied to Agriculture and the Arts. 

With the organization of the auxiliary Faculty of Medicine, 
i86i;-66, a new impulse was given by Professor George B. Wood, 
through whose efforts 
the new organization 
had been brought 
about. Out of this 
effort to found auxil- 
iary courses to Medi- 
cine grew the Biologi- 
cal School. Through 
the efforts of Dr. 
Horace Jayne, who 
had examined the 
laboratories of 
Europe, the Biological 
School was opened 
December 4, 1884. 
Since the death of 
Professor Ryder and 
Professor Cope, and 

the withdrawal of Dr. Jayne from the Directorship, the Department 
of Biology has developed into two closely allied departments — 
Botany and Zoology. The Department of Botany has established 
the Botanical Garden adjacent to the Biological Laboratory, and the 
Department of Zoology has just erected a Vivarium tor the study 
of animal organisms. 




HOUSTON HALL. 



The Department of Philosophy. 

It was early in the administration of Provost Pepper that the 
new epoch of graduate study in America began to force itself upon 
the attention of the University of Pennsylvania. In the Depart- 



120 



ments of Medicine and allied courses much valuable research had 
been carried on; but it was not in the form of ort^anized graduate 
work. On March 9, 1884, a meeting of a number of professors was 
called at the house of Provost Pepper for the purpose of organizing 
a Department of Philosophy, or, more properly, a Faculty, of Philos- 
ophy, in the European sense of the word, which should undertake 
the organization of graduate instruction, in accordance with the 
methods of the German universities. This original plan of graduate 
work furnished the basis of graduate instruction until 1888. In 
November of 1888 a modified form of the plan was adopted by the 
Board of Trustees. The officers of the Faculty of Philosophy con- 
sisted of a Dean, a Secretary and an Executive Committee. This 
work now belongs to the most important features of the University. 

The University Library. 

At the first recorded meeting of the Trustees of the Philadelphia 
Academy the subject of the Library was discussed. Benjamin 
Franklin was made chairman of the Library Committee, and the 
committee soon had in hand ^'100, for the purchase of Greek 
authors, maps, drafts and instruments. In 1774 a librarian was 
asked for by the Faculty, to take care of the considerable collection 
of books, but was not appointed until 1791. The regular income of 
the Library consisted of the Bachelors' and the Masters' fees. In 
1784 the Library received one hundred volumes of miscellaneous and 
literary works as the gift of his Most Christian Majesty, Louis 
XVI. In 1786 the first catalogue was prepared. 

With the year 1891 begins a new epoch for the University 
Library. On February 7 of this year, a hundred years after the 
amalgamation of the College with the University, the new librarx' 
building was dedicated and duly opened. Before the erection of 
the new building the Library had received, among other gifts, 
the Wetherill Library, 1871 ; the Evans Rogers Library, 1871 ; 
the Allen Classical Library, 1873; the Tobias Wagner Fund, 
1874; the Colwell Library, 1870; supplemented bv Mr. Henry C. 
Carey, 1879; the Wharton Endowment Fund, for the Wharton 
School Library, 1889; the Henry Seybert Library of Spiritualism, 
1883; the Krauth Memorial Fund, 1887; the McCartee Collection 
of Chinese and Japanese Literature, 1887; the Pott Philological 
Library, 1887; the Semitic Library, 1887; the Hayden Library, 



121 

i888; the Leutsch Library, 1889; the collection of Congressional 
and State documents, i88g; the Pepper Medical Librar\-, 1889; the 
Prime Collection of Works on Engineering, 1890; the Seiden- 
sticker Collection of German Works, 1890; the Ashburner Geolog- 
ical Lihrarx', 1890; the Leidy Library, 1891 ; tlie Bowie Librar\-, 
1891 ; the Powers Library, 1891; the Lippincott Library, 1891 ; 
the Harrison, Morris and Cochran Alcoves, 1891 ; the Harris 
Collection and Physick Library, 1892; the Cope Library, the Ken- 
dall Library, the Bechstein Germanic Library, 1895; the Macauly, 
Dante and Tasso, 1897, and the Collection of British Parliamentary 
Papers, 1899, 

The John Harrison Laboratory- of Chemistry. 

The teaching of chemistry in the University really begins with 
17^8, when John Ewing was appointed Professor of Natural Philos- 
ophy. September, 1765, Dr. Rush was made Professor of Chemis- 
try in the Medical School. During the transition period, from 
phlogiston to anti-phlogiston, the University of Pennsylvania occu- 
pied an important position in the controversy. Dr. Woodhouse, in 
his anti-phlogiston theories, was a forerunner of the new chemistry, 
which was represented later at Princeton by Dr. McLean. 

No special provision for an adequate chemical laboratory was 
made until the early nineties. In October, 1894, the John Harri- 
son Laboratory of Chemistry, erected by Mr. Charles C. Harrison, 
Mr. Alfred C. Harrison and Mr. William H. Harrison, was opened 
for instruction. The foundation was a memorial to John Harrison, 
the grandfather of the founders, and himself the founder of chemical 
manufactures in the United States, The new Chemical Laboratory 
was placed in charge of Vice-Provost Professor Edgar F. Smith. 

Department of Engineering. 

After the removal of the College to West Philadelphia the 
Department of Engineering occupied for some years one room in the 
top of College Hall. In 1889 Professor Marx was succeeded by Pro- 
fessor Henry W. Spangler. A collection of S 16,000 was raised and 
two rooms were equipped with instruments in the basement of- 
College Hall. In the autumn of 1892 the new building was occupied 
by the Department and the old heating plant was transferred to this 
building and a new electric plant was set up. 



122 



The Museum of arch/eology and Paleontology. 

In 1889 the Museum of Archceology and Paleontology was organ- 
ized tor original instruction and research, and for the formation of 
illustrated collections; and in 1891 it was constituted a department 
of the University. The city of Philadelphia transferred, March 30, 
1894, eight acres of land to the University in trust, as a park and 
botanical garden and site for a Museum of Science and Art, and 
added, October 29, 1895, one and two-sevenths acres of ground 
additional to the former grant. The same year the Legislature 
appropriated $1 50,000 for the erection of a museum building upon 

the condition 
that the Univer- 
sity raise a 
similar amount. 
The cost of the 
proposed struc- 
ture when com- 
pleted was esti- 
mated at $2,- 
250,000. The 
north we st e r n 
section has been 
completed at a 
cost of $450,000, 
and will soon be 
open to the 
public. 

The collections here housed are rich and extensive, including 
the American prehistoric antiquities, the section of Asiatic and gen- 
eral ethnology, the section of Babylonian antiquities (the greatest 
in America, and ranking next to the British Museum and the 
Louvre, the Egyptian and Mediterranean section, and the rare and 
valuable collection of gems donated by Professor Maxwell Som- 
merville. 

The LABORATOR^• of H^■G1ENE. 

In the year 1S89 Mr. Henry C. Lea offered to provide for tlie 
construction of a Laboratory of Hygiene, on condition that the Uni- 
versity should equip and endow it, and make Hygiene a compulsory 




THE TRIANGLE. 



12- 



■Study in certain courses and that a fourth year be added to the 
medical course. The Laboratory of Hygiene was opened February 
22, 1892. Original research was encouraged by the establishment 
of. the Thomas A. Scott Fellowship. 



The Wistar Institute of Anato.m\- and Biologn . 

Between 1808 and 1818 Dr. Caspar Wistar, Professor of 
Anatomy, made valuable collections of anatomical preparations to 
illustrate his lectures. His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Mifflin Wistar, 
presented this collection to the University. 

Through the generosity of General Isaac J. Wistar, a large 
building was erected in 1892 for the combined anatomical museum, 
and named the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, the first 
of the kind in America opened to the public. 



Dr. C. C. Harrison's'Provostship. 

May 23, 1894, Dr. Pepper retired as Provost of the University, 
and Dr. C. C. Harrison, who had been appointed Acting Provost, 
May 15, 1894, succeeded him June 4, 1895. 

During the administration of Provost Harrison the life of the 
University continued to manifest itself, both in the way of material 
improvement and in the spirit of scientific research. 

Mr. H. H. Houston and his wife donated a sum of money to 
build a hall, as a memorial to their son, Henry Howard Houston, 
Jr., of the class of 'j^. The building was completed at a cost of 
about $100,000, and named Howard Houston Hall and dedicated as 
a club house for the use of the students of the University. 

The Hall is in the centre of the group of University buildings, 
and is equipped with a reading room, smoking room, billiard, chess 
and checker tables, correspondence room, bowling alleys, shuffle- 
boards, bath room, swimming pool, athletic trophy room, large audi- 
torium with grand organ, editorial room. Christian Associatiiui 
room, dark room for photography and lunch room. 

The Hall is the home of the Houston Club, which consists of 
students and officers of the University; the cost ot membership is 
$2.00 per annum. 



124 



The Flower Astronomical Observatory. 

The late Reese Wall Flower bequeathed to the University what 
is known as the Flower Farm, on the West Chester Pike, near 
Cobb's Creek. Upon this site the Flower Astronomical Observa- 
tory was erected, and dedicated in the spring of 1896 tor graduate 
instruction and observation in astronomy. The Observatory consists 
of an equitorial building, a meridian building and the residence of 
the director, and is equipped with the most impro\;ed astronomical 
instruments. 

The University Dormitories. 

In one respect the University of Pennsylvania differed from 
most of its sister institutions, dati'ng from the colonial period, in 

that it made no 
provision during its 
early history for 
the housing of its 
students. One of 
the most marked 
advances of the 
present adminis- 
tration is to be seen 
in the effort to sup- 
ply this lon^ seri- 
ous lack in the 
University life, by 
the erection of the 
first part f the 
University dormi- 
tories. This so- 
called "triangle" 
and "little quad," accommodating about three hundred students, 
was opened in the fall of 1897, affording at very resonable rates all 
the modern conveniences — light, heat, air, water and service. The 
entire quadrangle, when completed, will accommodate over one 
thousand students and will include within the quadrangle a large 
Commons House. The government of the dormitories is vested 
in the parietal committee appointed by the Board of Trustees, and 
a Board of Representatives elected by the students. 




THE COURT. 



125 

The Gradl'ate Department for Wo.men. 

In 175 1 there was provision for both boys and ;j;irls in separate 
departments of the Charitable School. This arran^^ement continued 
in force in the College, nominally at least, until June 5, 1877, 
when the Charitable School was abolished. In 1879 Mrs. Bloomtield 
Moore presented the sum of $10,000 toward the education of women 
preparing for the career of teaching. Colonel Joseph M. Bennett 
donated properties to the value of $30,000, with which a graduate 
department for women was established. Colonel Bennett added 
$15,000 more to his original gift, and bequeathed in his will a sum 
estimated at 8400,000 for the development of the department. 

Franklin Field. 

Franklin Field is too well known to require much description. 
It is following an old adage that "The shoemaker's children go bare- 
foot, " that the University, while gaining a national reputation for 
its victories in athletic sports, has, up to the present time, no 
adequate gymnasium, it may be said, however, in justification of 
Franklin Field and of the apparent neglect of the Uni\ersity in 
point of gymnastics, that the most careful examination of students 
is conducted by the Director't)f Physical Instruction, and that those 
who finally pass into the grea-t arena of Franklin Field represent in 
the most severe sense of -ti^te word the survival of the fittest. 

The University as It Is. 

This brief sketch of the de\-elopment of the University of 
Pennsylvania has shown that the growth of the institution, as we 
now see it, has manifested itself chiefly during the administration 
of the last three Provosts. If we may characterize the administra- 
tion of Provost Stille as the period of revival, and that of Provost 
Pepper as the period of expansion, we may designate the adminis- 
tration of Provost Harrison as the epoch of organiiation and inner 
development. 

During Provost Harrison's administration, the various depart- 
ments of the University have been co-ordinated with the central 
system, and the finances of the University put on a solid business 
basis. In addition to the material progress of the institution, 
marked bv the erection of the John Harrison Laboratory of Chem- 



126 



istry, the Houston Hall, the Flower Astronomical Observatory, the 
University Dormitories, the Dental Hall, the Botanical Garden, the 
Vivarium, the new Law Building (in process of erection), and the 
Medical Laboratories, already projected, there is alive in all the 
departments of the University a new academic spirit, which is 
bringing the institution into touch with the great educational move- 
ments of the world, and is building up a structure far more lasting 
than any erected by chisel and trowel. hi a word, the widely 
recognized significance of the present administration lies in the 
appreciation of the importance of this inner growth of the Univer- 
sity as the first essential to all University life. 

. To this less ma- 
terial side of the 
University growth 
belong the various 
foundations provid- 
ing for scholarships 
and fellowships, for 
books and periodi- 
cals, for research 
a n d publication. 
Foremost among 
these endowments 
stands the George 
Leib Harrison Foun- 
dation, for the en- 
couragement of lib- 
eral studier and the 
a d V a n ceme nt of 
knowledge This foundation amounts to $500,000, and provides 
eight scholarships, each yielding free tuition and $100 cash annu- 
ally; nineteen fellowships, each yielding $500 cash and free 
tuition; five senior fellowships, each yielding $800 per annum. 
The total number of fellowships and scholarships now available at 
the University is about one hundred, yielding an annual income in 
cash and tuition of about $25,000. 

Another less material, but not less important, phase of Univer- 
sity growth is the improvement of the Library facilities through the 
efforts and generosity of a number of Trustees on the Library Com- 




WKSTERN END OF DORMITORIhS. SHOWING HAMILTON WALK. 



127 

mittee. Incomplete sets of periodicals and works of reference have 
been completed; gaps in very important subjects have been filled; 
a new system of cataloguing; has been introduced; thus transforming 
the Library from an Incoherent mass of books to a most efficient 
scientific apparatus. 

Still another form of growth is the organization and consolida- 
tion of the various publications of the University, into a uniform 
series, known as the Publications of the University of Pennsylva- 
nia, with sub-series for the various departments, and the endow- 
ment by subscription of a publication fund, devoted to publishing 
researches made by members of the University. A number of 
alumni and friends of the University have guaranteed the fund for a 
term of years. Among the new additions to the series already in 
progress at the time of the reorganization are the following: The 
Series in Mathematics, the "University Bulletin," the Series in 
Astronomy and the Series in Hygiene. In addition to the above the 
series includes the Series in Philology, Literature and Archaeology, 
Series in Political Economy and Public Law, Series in Philosophy, 
Series in Botany and Series in Zoology. There are also the follow- 
ing affiliated publications: The "Annals of the American Academy 
of Political and Social Science," "Translations and Reprints from 
the Original Sources of European History" and "Americana Ger- 
manica." 

This new life is apparent in the Departments both of Science 
and of Letters, but particularly in the more recently organized 
Faculty of Philosophy or Graduate Department. So rapid has been 
the progress of research in this latter department of the University 
that it has outstripped the professional schools, which are now re- 
newing their activity by introducing more rigid methods of research 
and instruction. This is more particularly manifest in the new 
departures in Medicine and in Law. 

It is the spirit of investigation which has transformed the old 
University of Pennsylvania, struggling along after its sister institu- 
tions, into the new University of Pennsylvania, the friendly ri\'al 
both of its earlier and later contemporaries. Thus from the two 
little buildings — the Academy and Charitable School of 1749-50— the 
University has grown into a complex of twenty-six buildings cover- 
ing more than fifty acres, aggregating a value of $3,750,000, with a 
faculty numbering 258 professors and instructors, and with 2,790 
students. 



PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD— ITS EXCELLENT 
TERMINAL FACILITIES. 



The Popular Route to the Battlefields of the Civil 
War and to the Seashore. 

THE history of the Pennsylvania Railroad is closely linked 
with that of the Grand Army of the Republic. Together 
they labored in the years of war, and in time of peace 
they are the pride of the people. The Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company extends a cordial greeting to the honored 
veterans in their Thirty-third National Encampment at Philadelphia. 

The thirty-four years since Lee and Grant met at Appomattox 
have witnessed many changes and much industrial improvement. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad now lands its passengers in the heart of 
the City of Philadelphia, in one of the largest and finest terminals of 
the world. Broad Street Station, situated at the junction of Broad 
and Market streets, just west of the great marble City Hall, is the 
most complete and elaborate railroad station ever constructed. It is 
twelve stories high, three hundred and six feet wide, and one 
hundred and twenty feet deep, and is built of granite and red brick 
with terra cotta trimmings. It contains, in addition to the ticket 
offices, baggage room, restaurant and waiting rooms, over two hun- 
dred rooms in which are located the general offices of the Company. 

Beyond the station proper is the mammoth train shed, extend- 
ing westward five hundred and ninety-eight feet, or more than the 
length of a city square. It is three hundred and four feet wide, and 
the glass and copper roof, one hundred and forty-seven feet above 
the track level, is supported by enormous single span trusses reach- 
ing from Market street to Filbert street. This gigantic shed covers 
sixteen tracks with their intervening platforms, and is the largest 
single span shed ever constructed. 

The station is ornamented within and- without with handsome 
panels of relief work, designed by Karl Bitter, the eminent sculptor 
of World's Fair fame. 

The trains reach the station on an elevated viaduct from West 
Philadelphia. All trains from Pittsburg and the West; Baltimore, 

9 129 





BH^r^n' »^^■' 






tt ir u r^^ 










. ^ti 



liKuAU STRKKl- STATION, PHILADELPHIA. 



Washington and the South; Buffalo and tlie North; New "i'ork and 
the East, and mi\ny of the express trains from the seasliore resorts,, 
including Atlantic City via the new Delaware River Bridge Route, 
are brought into this station. Four hundred and sixty-four trains 
arrive or depart from this station every week day, carrying an 
average of sixty thousand passengers. The station and train shed 
is lighted throughout by electricity, furnished by the company's 
own dynamos. The magnificent plant for this pm'pose, is located 
beneath the railroad at Sixteenth and Filbert streets. 

The seashore lines, of the Pennsylvania Railroad ha\'e their 
terminal at the foot of Market street, Philadelphia. An attractix'e 
new station has just been erected here, which is as equally well- 
adapted to its purpose as the imposing structure at Broad and 
Market streets. 



The new station is over tliree lumdred and twenty-seven feet 
long, and two stories j-iigh. Tiie front is tinisiied in highly orna- 
mented copper, with a projecting centre surmounted by a pictur- 
esque clock and tower. 



m 




OUADRUPLE TRACK TANKS. 

The entrance, ticket office and waiting-rooms are in tlie middle 
of the building. Two wagon-ways on each side lead to the lower 
bridges of the four ferry slips. These slips are built on the most 
approved pattern, and are known as "double slips," with great rub- 
ber bumpers between them to relieve the shock when boats strike. 

The ticket office for the present is located on the ground floor 
to the left of the main entrance, fronting on Delaware avenue. The 
waiting-room on the ground floor is just beyond. This is a commo- 
dious compartment, fifty feet wide and sixty-five feet long. The 
ferry slips are provided with upper and lower foot bridges for double- 
decked ferry boats, in all respects similar to the bridges and slips now 
in use at the ferry between the Jersey City Station and New York. 

'31 



With these splendid terminals, thorou,uhl\- equipped and conve- 
niently located, the Pennsylvania Railroad has unparalleled facilities 
for reaching Gettysburg, Antietam, Chanceilors\-ille, Frederici<s- 
burg, Winchester, and all the principal battlefields of the Civil War; 
as well as Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Asbury Park, 
Long Branch, and other seashore resorts on the New Jersey coast. 
The train service is all that a model railroad can furnish. 




ATLANTIC CITY. 



Full information regarding time of trains, reduced rates for side 
trips from Philadelphia, and stop over privileges, will be cheerfully 
furnished by the ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad at 
Broad Street Station, Market street wharf, 838 Chestnut street, 141 1 
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, 3962 Market street. West Philadel- 
phia, I Chelten avenue, Germantown; or by Mr. J. K. Shoemaker, 
Passenger Agent Middle District, 141 1 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 



Prominent Philadelphians 



GEORGE S. GRAHAM. 



Mr. George S. Graham, ex-District Attorney, was born in Philadelphia. September 13, 1850 receiv- 
ing his early education in the public schools and under the tuition ot his brother, the Rev. Robert 
Graham. He then attended the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he 
graduated in 1869, being admitted to the bar a year later, when only twenty years and six months old. 
He soon demonstrated the possession of exceptional abilities and rapidly made his way to the front. He 
took an active interest in public affairs, and was elected to Select Council in 1877, and for two years was 
chairman of the Law Committee. In 1870 he was elected District Attorney, An office which he filled 
with such ability and satisfaction that he was re-elected for each successive term until at the last election 
he declined to allow his name to go before the convention. He was four times the nominee of both the 
leading political parties, a distinction enjoyed by few men in the history of the city or country. Mr. 
Graham, in addition to his profound legal attainments, is a man of commanding presence and a forcible 
public speaker. He was for ten years professor of criminal law in the University of Pennsylvania, and 
in recognition of his great abilities on February 4, 1889, Lafayette College conferred on him the degree 
of LL. D. 



SAMUEL B. HUEY. 

One of the most distinguished members of the Philadelphia bar is Mr. Samuel B. Huey, whose 
offices are in the Drexel building. Mr. Huey was born in Pittsburg, in 1843, and in 1863, he was gradu- 
ated with high honors, from Princeton University, and at once enlisted in the United States navy. In 
1865 he resigned from the service and began the study of law in the offices of John C. Bullitt, Esq., and 
was admitted to practice in 1868. He has gained distinction in his profession as the result of a well- 
trained and analytical mind, profound legal knowledge and his broad mental grasp. He has been hon- 
ored with the degree of A. M., conferred upon him by Princeton University, and by the University of 
Pennsylvania with the degree of LL. D , while in social, public and financial affairs he is as prominent 
as he is in legal circles. Mr. Huey is Governor of the University C'ub, a director of the Art Club, a 
member of the Union League, of the Loyal Legion, and of the National Bar .Association, as well as a 
trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital, and is in every sense one of Philadelphia's most distinguished 
citizens. He is also prominently identified with numerous leading financial institutions, being a director 
of the City Trust Safe Deposit and Surety Company, the Spring Garden Insurance Company, as well as 
of the Edison Light Company. 

HAMPTON L. CARSON. 

Mr. Hampton L. Carson, a member of the law firm of Jones & Carson, was born in Philadelphia 
February 21, 1852, and received his early education in the schcol of Ur. Paries, subsequently entering 
the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1871. Three 
years later he graduate'-! from the Law Department of the same institution. He also studied law in the 
offices of William M. Tilghman, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1874, since which time he has been 
actively and successfully engaged in the firm of Redding, Jones & Carson, which afterwards became 
Jones. Carson & Beeber. Recently the firm was changed to the present style, both p.nrtners ranking 
among the foremost members of the Philadelphia bar. Mr. Carson was chosen by the Judiciary Com- 
mittee of the New York State Bar Association to prepare a history of the Supreme Court of the Umied 
States, and the manner in which this work was accomplished reflects great credit upon its author. He 
has represented the defendants in fourteen murder trials, and has lost but one cae where his client was 
being tried for a capital offence. He now controls a large and successful civil practice, and makes a 
specialty of corporation matters. 

HON. HENRY J. McCARTHY. 

Hon. Henry Jefferson McCarthy, who is Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, is a native of Phila- 
delphia, receiving his early education in the public schools of this city, and after being graduated from 
the Central High School, he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. William A. Porter, being 
admitted to the bar in 1866 He at once engaged in the active practice of his profession, in which he 
gained widespread distinction, and later formed a partnership with the late William Nelson West, city 
solicitor, which continued until the death of the latter in 1891,31 which time he became the senior mem- 
ber of the well-known firm of McCarthy, Work & De Havtn. The high order of J}'* leRa' attaintnents 
admirably equipped him for a position on the bench and he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court 
which office he filled until January i, 1896. He then resumed his extensive private pr.-ictice until 
November 25, 1898, when Governor Hastings appointed hiiii Judge ot Common Pleas Court, No. 3. He 
has taken part in many important cases, including Megargee v. the Mutu.^1 Life Insurance Company, the 
Chester TubeCompanv v. the Chester Rolling Mills, the Gas Trust Equity case and other large m.itter» 
in litigation. Judge McCarthy is also a leading member of the Masonic Fraternity and is ex-president 
of the Five O'clock Club, etc. 



DIMNER BEEBER. 

Hon. Dimner Beeber who was recently appointed to the vacancy on the Superior Court bench, 
caused by the death of Judge Reeder was born March 8, 1854,31 Muncy, Lycoming County, where 
he received his early education in the public schools after which he entered Pennsylvania College at 
Gettysburg, being graduated in 1874, He then took up the study of law at Williamsport, Pa., and in 
1876 was admitted to practice in Lycoming County and later was also admitted to practice in the courts 
of Philadelphia County. For the la-t twenty years he has resided in this city, where he has attained 
marked distinction in his profession and enjoys a large and lucrative practice. Last fall he was a promi- 
nent candidate for the office of District Attorney, being supported bv alarge following of prominent busi- 
ness men, but he withdrew his candidacy prior to the convention. In addition to his prominence in the 
legal profession, Mr. Beeber is influential ir» social life as a member of the Pennsylvania Club and the 
Union League, and is held in the highest esteem by the general public He gives a recognized devotion 
and a high order of legal talent to all confided interests and enjoys in a marked degree the regard of his 
associates and of the comiiuinity at large. 

JOHN ROBERTS, 

Mr. Roberts ranks among the city's leading attorneys, and enjoys a large and influential clientage, 
his offices being at 560 Bullitt builrting. He is of English ancestry, and was born in the district of 
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, October 10, 1S35, his parents, who were prominent members of the 
Society of Friends, having removed to this city shortly before his birth. Mr. Roberts, after an early 
education in the public schools, took a classical course at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., from 
which he was graduated in 1859, with the degrees of A. B. and A M , after which he returned to this 
city and began the study of law. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War, and he 
enlisted as a private in the "Famous Fighting Third" of New Jersey, serving with gallantry and 
distinction for three years, when he was mustered out with the rank of captain. He then resumed his 
legal studies, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. Mr. Roberts was for several years a member 
of the Commission on Charities and Correction, and is popular in social and professional life. 



GENERAL MATT. H. ELLIS. 

General Matt. H. Ellis. Judge Advocate General G. A. R. 1895, has been an active practitioner at 
the bar of New York City for thirty-five years. In the dark hours of the summer of 1862 he pitched his 
tent in Union Square, New York, and recruited over two hundred men and went out as captain of 
Company K, 175th New York Volunteers and served until February i, 1865. General Ellis has been 
identified with the Grand Army since 1868, and is a member of Fremont Post, No. 590, Department of 
New York. Upon the election of General Lawler as Commander in-Chief, he was appointed Judge 
Advocate General. He is now vice president of the Bunnell and Eno Investment Company, Philadel- 
phia. 

OUR HARBOR MASTER, 

Mr. Joseph H. Klemmer was born in New York City August 24, 185c, and was appointed Harbor 
Master of Philadelphia March 12, 1895. He is also a member of our Select Council and is a very efficient, 
zealous and trustworthy official in every respect His pleasant and genial manner has won for him 
many friends and admirers. He is always ready to extend a favor to his fellow man with spontaneity 
when appealed to in this direction. He is never too busy, and is one of the few men who never for- 
gets his friends. It would have been impossible to have appointed a more capable man to protect our 
harbor than Mr. Klemmer. Of him we can say, without egotism, he is the right man in the right plare. 
He has labored as hard as any individual in helping to make the Thirty-third Annual National Encamp- 
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic an unbounded success, and with such men as Mr. Klemmer 
success is sure to follow. Of him we are reminded of Emerson's lines: "Though genius hide itself 
in the forest, the world will find a pathway to its door " 



U6 



LOUIS BERGDOLL 







MONG the great industries our city is proud of, none has shown 
more activity and reached a state of higher prosperity than the 
brewing industry. Many thousands of men are employed by it, 
and its spacious plants and large and costly buildings bear evidence of 
the well-paying popularity the sparkling and stimulating beverage 
manufactured therein enjoys among the broad masses of the American people. 

The man whose picture is shown below — the late Mr. Louis Bergdoll — 
was one of the pioneers of the brewing industry in this city. He did much for 
the development of the same, and made it the purpose of his life to further in 
this country the interests of the 
trade he was employed in since his 
early youth. Mr. Bergdoll was a 
self-made man in the full meaning 
of the word. Born on the twenty- 
first day of July, 1825, at Sinzheim, 
near Heidelberg, the well-known 
university town, in the Grand- 
Duchy of Baden. He learned the 
brewer's trade, and came to this 
country and to Philadelphia in his 
early years. After woiking at his 
trade, for a few years, he, in 1849, 
started a brewery at 510 Vine Street 
in partnership with Mr. Psotta. The 
beer brewed by them became a favor- 
ite beverage to all connoisseurs of 
real German lager, and the firm of 
Bergdoll & Psotta began to prosper. 
In 1880 Mr. Psotta retired from busi- 
ness and Louis Bergdoll became the 
sole proprietor of the brewery, the 
plant of which was transferred to 
the more spacious location it now 
occupies at Twenty-ninth and Par- 
rish Streets. 

By untiring energy and ac- 
tivity Mr. Bergdoll succeeded in 
making his brewery one of the larg- 
est concerns not only in the city, 
but in the whole country. He nevei 
had any other ambition than to be 
a workingman, and even after he 
had accumulated millions of dollars 
he was as modest and unpretending as anyone could be. He never got 
tired of work, and even as a sick man in the last years of his life, and after he 
had transformed his business into the stock company bearing his name, he per- 
sonally superintended the technical details of his large manufacturing establish- 
ment with its steadily increasing output. Being himself a workingman, he 
looked after the welfare of the many people employed by him, and helped the 
needy .whenever he thought it wise to do so. He died on the tenth day of 
August, 1894. The big plant, the work of his life, is the monument he erected 
for himself. It teaches a lesson to the younger generation ; it demonstrates the 
truth of the old saying, " Where there is a will, there is a way. and stands 
proof for the fact, that millions can be accumulated by the energy, industry and 
skill of a thrifty workingman. 




\^K 



LOUIS BERGDOLL 




Relief Ship " MAY " eminently useful during the late w^ar 



Owned bv Alexander van Rensselaer 




.58 



/7 "^'i^^^'^ ''^v f^^*" Breakfast and Supper nothing equals 



MILLER'S 



BREAKFAST 



.(GEORGE MILLER a SDNCO( 
PHILADELPHIA. • 



MILLER'S 

COCOA 



Finest flavor. Absolutely pure. Costs only 
half a cent a cup. No belter Cocoa made. 
Your grocer sells it in half-pound U) cans. 

GEO. MILLER & SON CO. 

Manufacturers 

ESTABLISHED 1833. 255 to 263 South Third St., Philada. 




CIGARS OF INTERNATIONAL FAME 




^4Lo^z<^'vC 



vV 
nU 

>!/ 
\U 
>!/ 
>l/ 
vV 
SI/ 

^ 
\l/ 

>l» 

Manufactured by HOBERT KLEE, Philadelphia J 

vii' 

. . FOR SALE BY . ■ g|^ 

KEY WEST CIGAR CO. | 

1A10 South Penn Square xl/ 

vft- 



J* 
/»> 
/ft 
/ft 
/ft 
/ft 
/ft 
/ft 
/ft 
fl> 
/ft 
/ft 
/ft 
/»> 

<»N 
/ft 
/»> 
fl> 
/»> 
* 
/ft 
4^ 
/»> 
/»> 
/|> 

I 
/»s 

<ft 

/»> 

/»v 
/)> 
<»> 
/ft 
/ft 
/»s 
«> 




Makers of High-class Umbrellas... 

HIRSH & BROTHER 




1307-1311 Market Street 

Philadelphia. Pa. 




iWunyon Welcomes 

the brave boys in blue who kept 
this nation united ; made possible 
our Spanish victory later on 

A FRIEND OF THE SOLDIER 

Munyon— through his doctors and 
remedies— has cured thousands of 
veterans of rheumatism, kidney 
troubles and other diseases con- 
tracted on the battle field 



In justice to the soldier anJ sailor, attd m 
the name of humanity, I Plead for a law 
which will secure for our Nation's Defenders 
the most etfisacious remedies that modern 
science can provide, utilising the best thought 
of all schools.— MUNYON. 



Veteran W. B. Ayeis, 62'2 
Austin Ave., Chicago, fought 
all during the Civil War. He 
says, " My hardships resulted 
in after years in rheumatism, 
liidney and dropsy troubles. 
Munyon's Remedies ■ com- 
jiletly cured me." 

Soldier Eli Kisley, 1715 
Howard St., Philadelphia, 
says, "Exposure while in the 
war was the cause, long after, 
of kidney and bladder 
trouble. Could get no relief 
until I used Munyon's Reme- 
dies." 



A Civil War hero, W. H. 
Suit. 3iy Mullett St , Detroit 
Michigan, says, " Rebel bul- 
lets spired me, but I he War 
left me with terrible rheuma- 
tic pains. Nothing benefitted 
me until I tried Munyon's 
Rheumatism Cure. Id one 
luontb the pains left me." 



Munyon's Remedies-^ 

57 in number are the standard 
specifics of the world. A separate cure for each disease, 
mostly 25 cents a vial. Medical advice is absolutely free 
in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Washington and Chic 



Mr. William Erindle, a 
Me.xican War Veteran, (jlou- 
cester City. X. .1.. says, " 1 
cannot praise too liielily, 
Munyon's Remedies, they 
havedone much for me.'' 

For sale at all druggists ; 
at any of his offices located 
ago. 



Stahl & Straub 



Bankers and 
Brokers 

507 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA 

e^* e^* t^^ 

INVESTMENT SECURITIES A SPECIALTY 

Money Received on Deposit, Payable at Sight, and Interest Allowed 

on Daily Balances. Direct Communications with the Stock 

Exchanges of New York, lioston, Baltimore 

8^° Quotations furnished for all active and inactive Secnr//ies"^8 




PENN TRICAIV MONUMENT. 



Old Home of President James Madison 






u:'^--'!^m' i 




■-a- liii' ''M''p 






.> .- 



N. b. Cor. Fourth and Walnut Streets 

Now occupied by The General Accident Assurance Corporation Ltd., of 5cotland 

MUIR & HAUQHTON, U. S. Managers 

\'isit this old landmark and buv best forms of Accident and Healtli Insurance 



G 
A 
R 



REAT is the electric light. Candles were good enough untl. the oil 
lamp came — then gas made the oil lamp flame look sickly. Prog- 
ress means betterment— and so the electric light came. To-day 
the world is lighted by electricity— for two reasons. First, it's 
better — second, its cheaper, when the amount of illumination 
is considered. 

GREAT many people think electric lighting is costly. It Isn't: 
you should know how to use it. that's all. Don't have fifty lights 
in a room where six are sufficient. Don't burn lights when you 
don't need them. Don't do a great many foolish things that will 
make your light bill larger. For we measure your electric light 
through a meter. You are only charged for what you use. 

ATES are moderate, and if our lines are in front of your house, it 
will take but five or six hours to make connection. 'Phone or 
write to our office, and a man will come and see you and tell you 
all you want to know— answer questions— straighten out details, 
and show you that this electric lighting in your house isn't half the complicated affair you 
thought it was. There's knowledge to be gained, and money to be saved. Drop the 
postal now. 




The Edison Electric Light Co. 



Telephone 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



10th AND SANSOM STS. 



INTERNATIONAL NAyiGATION COMPANY 




STEAMSHIP ST. PAUL 

AMERICAN LINE 

New York and Southampton Express Service to London and Paris, sailing 
every Wednesday, at lo a. m., from Pier 14, North River, New York, for Southamp- 
ton, and every Saturday from Southampton for New \''ork, calling at Cherbourg 
west bound only. 

Terminal facilities at New York and Southampton are most complete. 



PHILADELPHIA-QUEENSTOWN-LIVERPOOL SERVICE 

Sailing every Saturday from Pier 54, South Wharves, Philadelphia, for Liver- 
pool, and every Wednesday from Liverpool for Philadelphia. 

This service offers special inducements to Second Cabin Passengers. 
Steamers Haverford and Marion, 10,000 tons each, now building. 



RED STAR LINE 

New York and Antwerp Service. 

A short and most convenient route to Paris, the Rhine, vSwitzerland and other 
continental points. 

vSailing every Wechiesday at 12 noon from Pier 14, North River, New York, 
and every Saturday from Antwerp for New York direct. 

Steamers Zealand and Vaderland, 12,000 tons each, now building. 



INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY 





ni'iJi'ipLl 

1 ^"jTVSl?^^'^'^'^^^-*-^'^" 









^^^ w-"' :^l!a* -5^*' ^ .r-^*'i^ 




PIERS 14 AND 15, NORTH RIVER, NEW YORK— AMERICAN AND RED STAR LINES 



*frN all its services the International Navigation Companj' endeavors 
to insure to its passengers, speed, safety, comfort, an excellent 
cuisine and polite attention. 

Drafts issued for all points in Great Britain and the continent. 

For schedules of sailings, rates, cabin plans, and all information 
apply to 




lonal Navi 





305-307 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 73 Broadway. New York 

143 La Salle Street, Chicago 1306 F Street, N. W.. Washington. D. C. 

89 State Street, Boston Third and Pine Streets, St. Louis 

30 Montgomery Street. San Francisco 



ii^.n 







' Tl ft 1 J J-' • 






PENN MUTUAI, RUII.DING. 






I SUPPOSE YOU HAD BUT A MINUTE IN WHICH 



" Your life is uncertain. You cannot be sure of it a minute at a 
time. It is to be hoped you will have a long life ; but the same hope was 
entertained by those who died yesterday — many in vigorous health, with 
no greater probability of immediate death thc^n yourself. 

" How will it be with your family if you die suddenly or unex- 
pectedly, or after a prolonged illness ? What have they then to rely upon ? 
// your life is prolonged, if you yearly make considerable savings you 
will create an estate. May be. How many do ? 

" Life insurance creates an estate for you at once. You and yours 
are made sure. For all, except a very few, it is the only way. It rests 
upon scientific principles ; experience has demonstrated its stability ; even 
the wealthy employ it ! Some form of it is within your means. Better 
any than none. That plan is best which will protect your family and 
make your old age secure — if you attain it. Will you ? " 



# 



I TO SET FORTH THE DUTY OF LIFE INSURANCE | ^r. 
I AND INDUCE YOUR LISTENER TO APPLY FOR | ^^ 
I A POLICY, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? I ^0/7 

f 

w 









Better get full particulars for the asking. No importunity. ^f|^ 

w 

- % 



Penn Mutual Life 

921-23-25 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA I 



•^'.^i.^^.^1^1^ 



w 



147 



1860 



1899 




^*^- 



OFFICE 4-19 WALNUT ST. 

PHILADELPHIA. 

CAPITAL, $300,000 

ASSETS, January 1, 1899, .... 1,532,553 

NET SURPLUS, - - - - - 251,368 

ROBERT B. BEATH, President 
JOSEPH. L. CAVEN, Vice-President 
DENNIS J. SWEENY, Secretary 
WILLIAM G. WIBLE, Assistant Secretary 

DIRECTORS : 

Alfred Moore Attorney-at-Law 

Chas. M. Lukens Lukens & Montgomery, Real Estate 

HOLSTEIN DeHaven Conveyancer 

Henry B. Tener Sec'y and Treas. of The Mortgage Trust Co. of Pcnna. 

George B. Bonnell Trustee 

William Wood Manufacturer 

Jacob E. Ridgway President Quaker City National Bank 

James Caven Manufacturer 

Louis Wagner President Third National Bank 



THE 
BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE CO. 

DEALERS IN 

Insifrnia Stationery Badqres 

Artistic Silver Objects of Art 

Watches Glass 

MAKERS OF OFFICIAL INSIGNIA FOR 

Order Loyal Legrion Order Foreio-n Wars 

Colonial Dames Colonial Wars 

Sons of the Revolution Army of Santiago 

Society of the Cincinnati 
Spanish- American Wars 

TWELFTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS 



H. F. BacbERan & Co. 



^(T 



jankers 



119-121 S. Fifth St. 

Philadelphia 



56 3roadway 

Mew Cjork 














Ovn Iluustdatet gcotvuE^ 
Sent on peQ^Esr" 






The only exclasive Sporting 
Goods House in Philadelphia 

Fire=Arms 

Fishing Tackle 

Bicycles 

Base=Ball 

Golf 

Tennis 

E(lw.K.Tryoii,Jr.&Co. 

10 and 12 North Sixth Street 



Members of Phila. Stock Exchange 

Private Wire to New York 




.in.lii 




Bankers and 
Brokers... 

117 S. Fifth St. 

Philadelphia 

■Drexei Building 



E. UI. Clark 5 Co. 



jt 



BANKERS 

Bond^'' Stock Brokers 



i on SOUTH FOURTH 
i.J7 STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 



E. W. CLARK 
S. W. COLTON, JR. C. H. CLARK, JR. 

E. W. CLARK, JR. J. M. COLTON 



Dick Brothers 
&Co. 



Bankeie 



435 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia 



m 



= • ll •11 








CITY HALL. 



156 



G. W. Edmonds 



TELEPHONE 3005 



R. Y. Warner 



G. W. EDMONDS &. CO. 

Successors to WARNER. SHUSTER & CO., Limited 

Anthracite and Bituminous COAL 

Main Office, 1920 N. Ninth St. 
PHILADELPHIA 

YARDS: 1920-40 North Ninth Street, and Tasker Street Wharf 



I ncorporated 1832 Charter Perpetual 

The 
Fif eltisurance eottipany 

^^O off he 

(Bounty 

OF PHILADELPHIA, 
No. no South Fourth St. 



Cash Capital 
Cash Assets 
Net Surplus 



$400,000.00 
918,055.76 
201,318.79 



DIRECTORS 

R. V. Massey, Jr. Richapd Y. Cook 

Alexander M. Fox Chas. R. Peck 

Alfred F. Moore William W. Fitler 

Joseph Moore, Jr. Edwin H. Fitler. Jr. 

Joseph A. Bremer Edward I. Smith 

OFFICERS 
Chas. R. Peck, President 

Alfred F. Moore, Vice-President 

E. A. Law, Secretary and Treasure 



Incorporated 1854 

Insure Against Loss or Damage 
by Fire with* 

TUB pieGlaniGS insorance 



OF PHILADELPHIA 



All claims promptly adjusted and 
PAID 



Simon J. Martin. President 

John A. Snyder, Secretary 

Chas. J. Gallagher, Vice-President 
Hon. Theodore F. Jenkins. Solicitor 



percy ]VI. Chandler . . . 



^ ^ 



Stock and Bond Broker 



MEMSeR OF 
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE 



N. E. Cor. Fifth and Chestnut Streets 

PHILADELPHIA 




with the Right Ammunition 



Stetson Hats 

are Staunch and Sure — 
they've Superlative Merit that 
can't be dodo^ed. 

Standards for style; foremost 
for quality and wear. Sold by 
leading hatters everywhere. 

Visit our Retail Store while 
in Philadelphia. 

John B. Stetson Co. 

PHILADELPHIA 

Retail Store: i io8 Chestnut Street 




THEO. KITCHEN. Pres't THEO. L. DeBOW. Cashier WM. POST. Asst. Cashier 



REPORT OF THE CONDITION 
OF THE 

Central National Bank 

OF PHILADELPHIA 

AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, APRIL 5th 1899 



RESOURCES 
Loans, Discounts, and Investments .... .... $7,444,925 79 

Exchanges for Clearing House ... 1,086,456 22 

Due from Banks and Bankers 379.7^7 54 

Cash and Reser\ e 3. 537. 002 01 

$12,448,151 56 

LIABILITIES 
Capital Stock $750,000 00 

Surplus Fund and Undivided Profits, 1,881,222 58 

Circulation 37.<>50 oo 

Deposits . 9,779,278 98 

$12,448,151 56 



DIRECTORS 

GEORGE M. TROUTMAN B. FRANK CLYDE 

ANDREW WHEELER THEODORE KITCHEN 

or Morris. l\'l.\cUr ir Co.. Iron .?;;,/ Stcd PrcfiJ.iil 

SAIV1UEL R. SHIPLEY LOUIS I. SMITH 

Prcsi.iciit of the ProviJciit Lite ami Triift Co. oi Clwlcs Smith ir Sons. Sj«*.t.> 

CHARLES SMITH GEORGE BURNHAM, JR. 

of Charles Smith ir Som. fi.i«A\)~ ,1/ BjlJ'uin h>co,ii,>ti\c Works 

T. WISTAR BROWN WILLIAM WOOD 

of John Farniim i- Co.. SUwiifactiirer.<. of William II mJ is- Co.. .\hiiiifuturer~ 

JOHN PITCAIRN 

PrciiJcnt of the Pittsburgh Pl.tte Glass Comf'jiiv 



HENRY DISSTON & SONS, Inc. 

PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. 



M ANUTACTURERS OF 



SAWS, FILES AND TOOLS 

OF SUPERIOR QUALITY AND UNSURPASSED 
WORKMANSHIP 
D. loo 



Our newest production of 
high-^rade hand saws. A 
perfectly proportioned, beau- 
tifully finished too' 








iiiiiilliiiill!»ili»^^ , ^ 



DISSTONS ADJUSTABLE HACK SAW FRAME— Oval Back. No. 4 




SOLID AND INSERTED TOOTH CIRCULAR SAWS 



BEI/ELS 
TROWELS 
TRY SQUARES 
STEEL RULES 
SCREW DRIVERS 
PLUMB and LEVELS 
MORTISE GAUGES 
CABINET SCRAPERS 
CORN KNIVES 
HEDGE KNIVES 
CORN GRATERS 
CROUT CUTTERS 
SLAVi/ CUTTERS, ETC. 



u 



Vt^ L^'l, 



O 



.i 
^ 
^ 



"3 



0) 



"^Sifc 


WEB SAWS 




HACK SAWS 


C\ 


BACK SAWS 


c 


COMPASS SAWS 


c 


KEYHOLE SAWS 


e^ 


BUTCHER SA WS 


e 


WOOD SAWS 


e 


GANG SAWS 


c^ 


MILL SAWS 


c> 


DRAG SAWS 


o 


CROSS-CUT SAWS 


r/ 


BAND SAWS 


-A- 


SAW SETS. ETC. 



nil £"0 MANUFACTURED FROM 
riLLu HARDENED. CORRECT L 



CRUCIBLE STEEL. CAREFULLY FORGED AND 
Y SHAPED TEETH. THE MOST DURABLE FILES 



ON THE MARKET. 




Chicago, ills. 



BRANCH houses: 
Louisville, Ky. New Orleans, La 

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

WRITE FOR OUR PAMPHLET ON THE SAW • 

l6? 



BOSTON, Mass 




CHRIST CHURCH. 






Landreths' Seeds 





We have carried this Flag to every quarter of the Globe 

Our Catalogues are published in six languages— English, French. German, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish 

^deislor Seeds and Implements from 

Wholesale Merchants, Retail Merchants, Market Gardeners, 
Private Gardeners, Farmers and Planters 

visiting Philadelphia are invited to call at our STORE, 
Cor. 10th and Market, the finest SEED STORE in 
the World. Our business was established in 17S4, and 
is thus of ii5}'ears' continuous existence. No other 
SEED HOUSE in America is at the same time so Ancient and so Young. 
Write for Catalogue. No order is too small. Address — 

D. LANDRETH & SONS 

Seed Farmers and Merchants PHILADELPHIA 








165 




STATUE OF BENJAMIN 1- RAN KLIN, TOST OFFICE I'LA/A. 




The 

Schley 
Sword 



Kxceptins the blad". all tliemelal 
work, incluiiing the soabbard. is ol 
ISkt. gold. Hilt and scabbard brill- 
iautly jeweled. The most valuahl,- 
presentation sword yet produced. 

AMONG the notable 
j\ works of a mili- 
tary or naval 
character executed by 
our house are : 



THE SCHLEY SWORD 

The Sterling Silver Service 

FOR THE 

U. S. BATTLESHIP IOWA 

THE CITY TROOP SERVICE 

in Sterling Silver 

The Sterling Silver Service 

FOR THE 

U. S. BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY 

{in proccii of making) 

Our special designs possess the highest degree 
of appropriateness and artistic merit. Immediate 
attention will he given requests for designs and 
estimates. 

J.E.Caldwell&Co. 

902 Chestnut Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



Diamond Merchants 
Jewelers 



Importers of Art Objects 

Srii'ersniiths 



F. Gutekunst 

Established 1856 

Has received the Highest Commen- 
dation for his 

Photographs 

of Distinguished Officers and Vet- 
erans in our Army and Navy 
These include 

Grant, Meade, W, F. Smith, 

Hancock, Rosecrans, 

Hartranft, Wagner. Watson, 

Schley, Philip, Sigsbee, 

hobson, etc. 



Studio, ri2 Arch St. 

I Branch, iroo N. Broad St. 



Chas. H. Bean &. Co. 

BANKERS 

AND 

BROKERS 

116, 118 and 120 Custom House Place 

Drexel Building 



Members of the Philadelphia and New York 
Stock Exchanges 

Direct Private Wire Connections with New Y"rk. 
Chicago. Boston and Baltimore 



NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS 

VAN EMBURGH 4 ATTERBURY 



i6g 



I 



o 



O 

^ 



OJ 











^ 






« 






iS 






"« 






C 






e 






« 












tL 






«o 






>» 






4> 






cn 






i. 






v 






^ 




, 


w 




■^ 






2 


c 




2 


s 




Ul 






Q. 


4-t 

o 


s 


» 


>, 




(0 


> 


3 


h 


Z 




I 


•a 
c 


o 

2( 


CD 




^^ 


E 


2 

< 


Ul 


< 


z 

o 


t 


c« 


z 




« 


3 
E 


2 


2 


u. 





'3 

a 




h- 


</i 




IL 


•X 






■a 






o 

o 

o 







u 

«8 
«»■ 
3 
C 
CO 

c 



1794 



OLDEST INSURANCE COMPANY IN HARTFORD 
. . .THE .. . 

HARTFORD 



1899 



Pire Insurance Company 



OF HARTFORD, CCNN. 



Has a Capital of 
Oue and 
One-quarter 
Million Dollars 



Has Total Assets 

of over 

Eleven Million 

One Hundred 

and Eigbty-three 

Thousand Dollars 




Has a A'et Surplus of 
over 

Four Million Four 
Hundred and 

Fifty-eigbt Thou- 
sand Dollars 



Has paid over 
Fifty-nine 

Million Dollars 
in Losses 



GEORGE L. CHASE, President 
P C ROYCF Secretarv ^THOS. TURNBULL, Ass't Secretary 

H. L. KUYcfc, ^ecretary ^CHAS. E. CHASE, Ass't Secretary 

CH/IS. A. HEXAMER, Manager, 414 Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Vetterlein 5ros. 



JOS. S. VEITERLEIN 
Established 1870 



J44 and 146 NORTH FIFTH ST. 
Jtj.jkj.jk PHILADELPHIA JJkjjj. 



MANUFACTURERS Of 
THE CELEBRATED 



Saboroso 
Prince Herald and 
Florde Vetterlein 




ALL GOODS STRICTLY HAND-MADE, AND 
OF ABSOLUTELY PURE TOBACCOS ^J^u*^ 



THE ATLANTIC 

REFINING CO. V 



Refiners of 

Petroleum 

and its 

Products 

for Export and Domes tie nse 



General Office - 328 Chestnut St. 
Domestic Trade Dept. - 125 Arch St. 

PHILADELPHIA 




176 




GREATEST ATTRACTION IN THE CITY 

Every member ^~^ A |^ and Naval 

of the Xj« /~\.m r^j» Veterans 

sliould visit the iiiaivelous Cycloraina 

BATTUB OR MAINIUA 

,_^ ^^^___ and stand with 

"^JV ^.^. DEWEY ON THE BRIDGE 

J- 1 of the ininiic model of the "nlynipia," i jo by to feet. 

Broad and Cherry Sts. 

OPEN DAY AND EVENING 

[ , Endorsed by entire Press of city, and thousands ot enthusi- 

1 astic patrons. 

May 24, 1§99. 
C. S. Hartman, Manager, 

N. E. Cor. Broad and Cherry Sts., 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dear Sir:- -I had a party of friends at "The 
Battle of Manila" on Monday evening. We were all 
much pleased with the picture and also with the ad- 
mirable address. The only thing to be desired in 
connection with the latter a/^s a statement of the 
number of men engaged on both sides, and also the 
number of casualties. In other respects the show 
was perfect. Yours truly, 

LOUIS WAGNER. 

Philadelphia, Aug. 10th, 1§99- 
C. S. Hartman, Manager, 

N. E. Cor. Broad and Cherry Sts., 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dear Sir: --Having visited the painting, "Battle 
of Manila," I do not hesitate to pronounce it the 
most wonderfully realistic scene that can possibly 
be imagined- -absolutely sublime in its design and 
patriotic in its conception. 

I viewed the scene with mingled feelings of 
surprise, wonder and admiration, as it carried me 
back, in imagination, to the deck of the good ship 
"Brooklyn" in the Gulf Squadron with Farragut and 
Dewey, and in the North Atlantic Squadron under 
Admiral Porter. 

To our visiting Shipmates, Comrades of the G. 
A. R. , and citizens generally, I say by all means 
visit the "Battle of Manila." 

WM. SIMMONS, 
Historian National Association of Naval Veterans, 
Past Commander Naval Post 4OO , Dept . Pa., G. A. R. 

12 '77 



5-^^^ 









The music of the ma 

YOU CAN HEAR IT OR ANY MUSIC 
ON THE GRAPHOPHONE 

•Ig^ EPRODUCES with marvelous fidelity. A Graphophone is the greatest entertainer 
l|^ devised for the home. It embodies the latest improvements and every advance 
made in the art. Wonderful in its simplicity of operation as ^vell as in the per- 
fection of its reproduction. 

Grapbophoties for $5>C0 an d up 

The Five-dollar Graphophone affords all the wonders and pleasures of a high-priced 
talking machine. When accompanied by a recorder, this Graphophone can be used to 
make records. Price with recorder added, $7.50. 



The 



"Home Grand 



^* 



Graphophone, price $J00, embodies the latest 
discoveries in sound reproduction. It repro- 
duces music or the human voice with all the volume and perfect quality of the original. 



WALK INTO OUR PARLOR 

1032 CHESTNUT STREET, and hear all the wonders of the talking machine. 

Our establishment is the world's headquarters for talking machines and talking 
machine supplies. 

Columbia Pbono^rnpb Companv 

J 032 CHESTNUT STREET 

Pbiladclpbia, Pa. 



a 



m M store" 



R. R. KESTEVEN 

I Sole Proprietor) 



Fiqe Imported . . . 





and 





rs... 



N.E.Cor. Chestnut and JOth Sts. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Branch, 531 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Eisenlohr's 



G 



REAT is the regret 
and greater still the 
annoyance and cost 
of a leak in the roof. 



-deen si NOITNETT 

kael eht erofeb de 

foor ruoY .srucco 

lanoisacco sdeen 

eht ,pu gfnihctaw 

.htlaew dna htlaeh ruoy sa emas 



A 



R 



AIN arely uins 
egularly epaired 
oofs. 



Gara. MgGinl ey e Ot 
r I 23 South 17" 5!. PhilaJe lphia ' vJ 

Roofers in Tin, Tile, Slate and Slag. Painting' 
Roofs. Spouting:, etc. 

Architectural Sheet Metal Workers. 



@^ 



...Cigars 




For BALTIMORE 

l>:i.v ito:tl K.-ire. MI.OO. 
-Viultt KiKtl l-'ar*'. Nii.lto. 
l>a,v ICoal N-arev. T.:iO A. II. 
>iu:lit ICoal l«-a4«>*>. 5.00 l». .n. 
KxciirHioii Tifkel. 

eood lor 10 dayH. 82.25. 

Day Boat stops both ways at Lorwood Grove. 
Excursion, 50 cents. Delightful trip for Sunday 
Schools; arriving home early same evening; 
stopping both ways at Chester and New Castle. 
Steamers sail daily, except Sunday. Send for 
pamphlet and other information to 

P. >i. OKOVES, Agent, 
Pier 3, S. Wharves, above Chestnut St. 

Through tickets to Washington Norfolk, Rich- 
mond and South Also tickets to Baliimore and 
Washington, good to return by rail. 



1825 



THE 



1899 



PENNSYLVANIA 

FIRE 

Insurance Company 



INCORPORATED 1825 



CHARTER PERPETUAL 



Office, 510 WALNUT STREET 



PHIIiADKLPHIA, PA. 



CAPITAL $400,000.00 

•ASSETS $5,230,036.10 

SURPLUS $2,300,163.37 



DIRECTORS 



Kdwin N. Benson 
R. Dale Benson 
J. Tatnall Lea 
C. N. Weygandt 



Richard M. Cadwalader 
Effingham B. Morris 
John L. Thomson 
Charles E. Pugh 



Harrv F. West 



R. D.ALE BENSON, President 
JOHN L. THOMSON, Vice-President 
W. GARDNER CROWKLL, Secretary 
CHARLES W. MERRILL, Assistant Secretary 
WM. J. DAWSON, Sec'y Agency Department 
GEORGE TUCKER BISPHAM, Solicitor 



STANLEY G. FLAGG & CO. 



MALLEABLE IRON, GRAY IRON AND STEEL 
FOUNDRIES, FINISHING AND MACHINE SHOPS 

North 1 9th St.^ Pennsylvania Ave. and Hamilton St. 



Manufacturers of 

WROUGHT IRON AND STEEL PIPE 

MALLEABLE IRON, CAST IRON AND 

STEEL FITTINGS 



PHILADELPHIA. 



183 



IS53^S^i?m?;^A?PE~ 




Ghas.Roeseh&Sons I Drink 



SLAUGHTERERS 
AND PACKERS.. 

Beef, Pork, Lamb and Veal 



834, 836, 838 
N. Second Street 
Philadelphia 



Abattoir, ^ 

West Philadelphia ^^ 

Stock Yards 



Refrigerator. 
Philada. Market. 
30th & Market Sts. 



.Telephone Connections. 



Dulci Cachous 

THEY AID DIGESTION J>^ 
PERFUME THE BREATH 
THEIR FLAVOR DELICIOUS 



Once tried 
you will never 
be without them 



SG. per packaye 



^ 



For sale by Druggists, 
Confectioners, or at 
Hotel News Stands 



MANUFACTURED BY 

THE DULCI PERFUMERY CO. 

Philadelphia, U. S. A. 



Prospect 
Beer 



The Frenchman likes his native wine. 

The German drinks his glass of beer 
The Iri-shman his whiskey straight 

Because it gives him cheer, 
The Englishman his 'alf and 'alf 

Because it brings him dizziness, 
But the American has no choice at all — 

He drinks the whole d n business. 

Including 

Prospect 

Beer 

THE Prospect brewing Co. 
Eleventh and Oxford Sts. 



Boiiz, myiiiei & Go 

POPULAR SEGARS 

El Merito 

American Pearl 

Flor de Jefferson 

and... 

El Palencia 

SOLD BY ALL PROMINENT 
DEALERS 



185 



Dennett Surpassing Coffee Companv's 
QUICK LUNCH ROOMS 

NEW YORK BROOKLYN 

25 PARK ROW, opposite Post OfTice 12 MYRTLE AVENUE, near City Hall 

4 and 6 BEEKMAN ST., near Post Office 353 and 355 FULTON ST., near City Hall 

US and 145 NASSAU ST., Potter Building 30 LIBERTY ST., near the Great Bridge 

21 and 23 ANN ST., near Broadway 195 FULTON ST., near the Great Bridge 

109 NASSAU ST., near Ann Street 

40 BROAD STREET. South of Wall Street 

140 E. 14th ST., opposite Tammany Hall 

PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE 

13 S. NINTH ST., opposite Post Office 306 E. BALTIMORE ST., opposite Sun Building 

529 CHESTNUT ST., opposite Independence Hall 308 W. BALTIMORE ST., near Eulaw Street 
1309 MARKET ST., opposite Wanamaker's 

Popular Prices ^p^" Q^y °^^ %^^ ^^^^p* Sundays neatness aqil DespatcH 

S. S. SWAIM, General Manager 



Econom y in Buy ing 

Carpets and Rugg . . ^^^^ 

Is not to be counted so much by the price, but by the quality of the ma- 
terial used in the manufacture. This is our business, as Leaders in Phila- 
delphia's foremost industry, the manufacture of Carpets and Rugs, of all 
grades from the modest Ingrains to the finest Wiltons, and combined with our 
long experience as Retailers enables us to give best value at lowest prices. 
One of our special offerings : 

WILTON RUGS, 9x12 ft., $35.00 



Ivins, Dietz & Magee 



Carpet Manufacturers and Retailers 

MILLS: I220 and 1222 Market Street 

Marshall, Lehigh Ave. and Seventh St. 

187 



^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^i^i^^^:^^^^^^-^-^-^^^^^^^ 




T be Epterprise... 

food Cboppersi 



KJi'TINNED-.'i]*. 



Produce Fine, Medium or Coarse Par- * 
* Will Chop More and do Better Work than any * 



Chop Everything Edible 

:e Fine, Medium or Coar 
tides as may be desired 



4S 

I 

<^^ All the leading Hardware and Housefurnishing 
^ Stores sell them 



other Food Chopper 

THE PHOSPHOR-BRONZE BEARING PROLONGS THE 
LIFE OF THt MACHINE 



Descriptive Catalogue Free ^ 
\i> 



I The Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pa. | 

* PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A. * 

Other Tools are very good Tools, but — 

"YANKEE" TOOLS are better 




"YANKEE" RATCHET SCREW DRIVER, No. lO 

Sizes : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, :<, 10, 12 inches. 




"YANKEE" SPIRAL-RATCHET SCREW DRIVER, No. ;50 



l>iives or takes out screws by pushing on handle, or by ratchet moTemeiit. Can be use.l as ri^id screw driTer 

at any part of its length. 




''YANKEE" AUTOMATIC DRILL, .No. lO 

For boring w.>o.l for setting screws, biad?, nails, .to ; <an be uoe.I in hard or eofi wood without »|'l>tliiig. Push 
injr on handle revolves drill. Each drill has ^ drill points in magiiziiie insi.le l.auilli-. 

" YANKEE " TOOLS are sold by leading dealers of Tools and Hardware 

■■YANKEE" TOOL BOOK mailed free un aij/jluatiun tu 

NORTH BROS. MFG. CO., = PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

i8g 



GEO. L. HUBBARD 



ELON M. GUYN 



R. A. ZIMMERMAN 



Geo. K. Hubbard &, Co. 
Grocers dt 



HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS 
SUPPLIED 



BEST BRANDS FAMILY 

FLOUR A SPECIALTY 



No. 127 North Water Street 



Cabinet Brand Canned Goods 
Royal Arch Brand California Fruits 



Philadelphia, Pa 




When in town 



OFFICE and STORE 
44 N. 5th St. 



call at our Show Rooms, 
44 North Fifth St., and 
see our display of High- 
Grade Plumbing Goods 



FLECK BROS, 






m 



^ 



LEAD WORKS and WAREHOUSE 
1641-45 American St. 




manufacturers' club house. 



CD r GARRETT-BUCHANAN CO. 

• _ f MANUFACTURERS OF 

/^ I WRAPPING W^ BOOK 

PL BUILDING 1-^51 r>f^f*^ /VE-WS 

^__ r ROOFING * C^I^V^l 4:^ WRITING 



R[ 



3, 5 AND 12 DECATUR ST. 

PHILADELPHIA 



Qeorge /\_ p^uhn & Sons 




:!Bankcr6 
«"^ Brokers 



BULLITT BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA 

Branch Office, 304 Land Title Building 




DELIVERED TO FAMILIES 
30C. Per Quart 



THE Bassett Ice Cream Co. 

504 MARKET STREET 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



RESTAURANT 



telephone 20-17 

Special Arrangements for 

Churches, Lodges, Etc meals from 6 a. m to 7 p. m. 

13 193 



The Allison Manufacturing Co. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Charcoal Iron Lapwelded Boiler Tubes 
Wrought Iron Pipe 










vAr -^■'' 




RAILROAD 
FREIGHT CARS 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 



EXPORT WORK A SPECIALTY 




OLD MIFFLIN MANSION 



p. T. eHAM-DLE-R 



tyf.^7^ 



o, 



€^^7^^ 



y 




^i^/3e4^ 



Member of 
Phila. Stock Exchange 



TV. E. Cor. ^tJi and CJiestniit Sts. 
PJiiladelphia 



«:i iDvestment Securiiies 


James H. Chapman 


SUITABLE FOR 




Trustees, Institutions, 


REPRESENTING 


and Private Investors 




FOR SALE BY 


Harvey Fisk & Sons 


GraIiam,KBrr&Go. 


New York 


BANKERS AND 




BOND DEALERS 




489 CHeslqul Slreet, PjilLBDELPHIil 


United States Bonds 


MEMBERS OF PHILADELPHIA 
STOCK EXCHANGE 


A SPECIALTY 


Private wires to New York, Chicago, 
Boston and Providence. 

Correspondents of Redmond, Kerr & 
Co., New York. 


421 CHESTNUT STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 



R. J. Hoffman 
President 

C. E. Boyd 
Sec''y&' Trras. 



Establish d 
1858 



208 S. 41hSt. 
GENERAL DgTRIBUTORS 

ADVERTISING MATTER 

Tnroughout fhe united SiatesiCanado. 

Comfilkr* of Li*^sof£^ll Oeecription" 



'i he Largest and Best tqiiipped Plant in the 
States for this particular business. 

Addressing, Folding. Enclosing, Sealing, St; 
Wrapping. .". We compile sptcial lists to m 
requirements of any buMness. trade or profei 
the United States iind Canada. 




THE BEST AND MOST ECONOMICAL WIRE 
STITCHING MACHINES ARE 

New Jersey Wire Stitchers 



Send for Particulars 



J. L. SHOEMAKER & CO. 



Dealers in all BOOKBINDERS' MATERIALS 
Agents for KERATOL — Imitation Leather 



15 SOUTH SIXTH STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 



The Mitchell Coal and Coke Co. 



Miners and Shippers of 



Bituminous Coals 



FURNACE AND FOUNDRY 
. . . COKE . . . 



GENERAL OFFICES 

810 Uand Title Building 

NEW YORK OFFICE PHILADELPHIA 

80 WALL STREET 



Telephone Connectio 



J AS. Z. DILLON 

Photographer 



1017 CHESTNUT STRHHT 



Shakespeare Btiildiiisi 



PHIl.ADF.LPHIA 
197 



SPHCIAl. LINKS 

Buildings, Merchan- 
dise and Animals :'. 

Interiors and Groups 
by Elcetric Flash-liiibt 

Bromide Enlargements 
Half-tone Engravings 

Dei'eloping and Print- 
ill)! lor Amaleun .'. 



A. M. (Rollins 






I n)aKcr$ of all Kinds of 

I Cards and 



=§5 



Manufacturing 
Company 



Cardboards 



527 Arch Street 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



i for Printers 

i Lilbocjrapbcrs 

i Stationers and 

i Pboto^rapbcrs... 

B /llso manufacturers of 

I bi^b-^rade 

I Coated Book and 

i Coated Label 



m 



m 



Paper 






Why not send us all your Important 
Cleaning ? 

fl. F. BopDOt 2t Bpo. 

FRENCH 

SeooreFs 
^^^ DyeFs 



17th Street and 
Fairmount Avenue 



f 1555 Chestnut Street 
Branches < 1714 North Broad Street 
' 106 South lolh Street 



Philadelphia 



WASHINGTON. D. C. 



WILMINGTON. DEL. 



Edniond W. Bureau 



Edouard S. Bureau 



Bureau Brothers 

Bronze Statuary 

Architectural Works 

Fountains. Railings, and Castings 

of Every Description 



Vault Doors 

Window Guards 

Lamp Posts 

Memorial and In- 
scription Tablets 

Estimati s Promptly 
Furnished 



S. W. Cor. 21st St. and Allegheny Ave. 

PHILADELPHIA 





ARCn.KOI.OGICAI. MUSEl'M. 




Now is your chance to buy from 
First Hands, finest 

IVevv^ Pro p 

Teas . . . 

Freshly Roasted Coffees 



AT ALL. PRICES 



Courtenay & Co's. Original and Genuine 
Worcestersiiire Sauce, reigns supreme all the 
world over. 

Standard Sugars of all grades at Refiner's 
Prices. 

SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS 

to Large Consumers, Boarding House Keepers, 

Restaurants, Hotels, Institutions, etc. 



The Great Atlantic and Pacific 
Tea Co. 

1205 Market St., Philadelphia. Pa. 



ifaieDtine n. Smitii & Go. 

WHOLESALE 
DRUGGISTS 



DEALERS IN 

Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Drttg;- 
gists* Sundries, Patent Medicines, etc. 

IWANUFACTURERS OF 

Medicinal Fluid Extracts, Elixirs, and 
other Pharmaceutical Preparations 

Southwest Corner 
Second and Green Sts. 
Philadelphia 




AND OTHER 



IN. Stetson Sz Co. 

1209 CHESTNUT SXREKX 




BETSY ROSS HOUSE-BIRTHPLACE OF THE STARS AND STRIPES. 



I 



t 



I 

i 
I 

i 




WARREN-EHRET 
COMPANY... 



Ehret^s Slag 
Actinolite Tile 



Roofios 



.... MANUFACTURERS OF . . . . 

ROOFING AND ^^j^ 
PAVING MATERIALS 



1210 Land Title BIdg., 



Broad and 
Chestnut Sts. 



PHILADELPHIA 



NEW YORK, 241 Water St. 

BUFFALO, 262 Pearl St. 

SCRANTON, 32t Washington Ave. 
READING, 26 North Sixth:St. 




I 

i 



'^^^=<^' 



•^>:iE:S«- ^7=X=^' 



Stephens, Cooper & Co. 



Contractors and makers of the Avenue 
of Fame for 33d Encampment of Grand 
Army of the Republic, and for the Court 
of Honor of Philadelphia Peace Jubilee. 




Work furnished 
from special de= 
signs or stock 
as desired .... 




Modellers in clay, and workers in staff, 
plaster, cement, artificial marble, carved 
wood and carved stone 



OFFICE: 

laai'ARCH STREET 



SHOP: 



aSTH AND LANCASTER AVE. 
PHILADELPHIA 



Incorporated Established JS58 „e„ry Ruthrrford. Pr.u^.„t 

Chas. R. DiMKlore, S,-c'v 

DOUBLE LABEL 

F>RIINCE'S AlETAUUIC RaIINT Co. 

Sole Successors to the Original Miners and Manufacturers of 

Prince's Metallic Paint and Rutherford's Metallic Paint* 

0Ifice--622 Diexel Bldg., PHliadelpHia, Pa. RXIfc^l=^fo^:»e;c^avrc^^ 

...TELEPHONE 5759... 



Edward Mellor, President Francis Yarnali. Sec'yand Treas 

Jay Gates, Trust and Title Officer John C. Bockius, Re.-il Estate Officer 



iit» ^t, ^e» 
•SIS' •»«» "siir 



GERMANTOWN-' 



Capital, Full Paid, 
$300,000 

Undivided Profits, 
$125,000 



Real Estate, 

Deposit and 



TRUST COMPANY 



Titles Insured and Conveyancing done. Real Estate 
Bought, Sold and Rented. Rents and Incomes Col- 
lected. Acts as Executor, Trustee, etc. .'. .'. .'. .". 

Safe Deposit Boxes to Rent Interest a/ hived on Deposits 

GAS FIXTURES Ait /^ GRILI^S 

ELECTRIC FIXTURES liM>%0^ ALTAR WORK 



INSULATING JOINTS 1^5^ 5) '^ TABLETS 

AmeriCQR Gas Tixture Worlis 

MANUFACTURERS 

208 NORTH BROAD STREET • 

John f. Pole, Owner Philadelphia 

205 



CAPITAL, S350,000 ^s;., 

ASSETS, $1,245,000 SURPLUS, $683,000 J^, 

INSURANCE IN FORCE, $10,600,000 V/ 

■ <l> 



I Alost all 

I . Old Soldiers 

W. find their lives impaired, and tlierefore unable to secure the blessings afforded by ^ 
w safe and sound life insurance. Thev ^. 

I Deserve 



\» 
>»> 

N» a better fate, and our plans are so adjusted as to enable us to offer them ^ 

I Protection | 

i»/ on the Individual Merit System. For particulars, address SJ/ 

I THe SeGiiiily Tiusi and Lile Insuraiice Go. f 

«> ROBERT E. PATTISON, PRESIDENT 1 001 CH ESTN UT ST R E ET .l*- 



New York Salesroom, 828 Broadway 
37 Temple Place. Boston, Mass. 



PARIS BERLIN 



BLUM 
BROTHERS 

Importers and Manufacturers of 



ill Mmt: 



1007-9-11 Market Street 
Philadelphia 



The G. A.R. Camp at Belmont 
erected, and COTS supplied by 

D. C. HUMPHRYS 

j»^^^ Manufacturer of ^^^^ 

Mm, Tents, signs 

1227 Market Street ^^>^ 
Flags, Banners, Decorations for 
every occasion ^ Canopies to 
hire for Weddings, Receptions, 
etc. .^^^^j^.^^,^ Ii'lcplionc 



2o6 




PENNSYLVANIA GALVANIZING COMPANY, Limited 

2124 to 2132 Race Street, Philadelphia 

Established i85o. Frederick Chase, Chairman ; Joseph E. Straus, Treasurer ; J George Bucher, 

Secretary. Their Facilities for Handling the Largest Class of Work 

are tne best in the Country. 



/V\Ine Owners and Operators 
On the West Va. Central Sc Pittsburg "Ry 

Cumberland "Bituminous Coals 

Davis Cfke 






Davis Coal and Coke 
Company 



Philadelphia Office 
LAMt) TITLE BUIU'DI/M© 



Sole Agents for 

Elk Garden Cumberland Coal 

from the 

Big Vein of George's Qre^e.K 



f^ HOTEL 

% RESTAURANT 

IHi CLUB 
/ft 

$ STEAMBOAT 
/ft 

Jft M'o/?/r 

/»v 

^^- ^^ ^ 






MERCANTILE 



\»/ 



Treasurer and 
Manager 



» STEAM LAUNDRY CO. f 

\«/ \f/ 

I 1306-8-10 Filbert St. | 

\»/ 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Telephone 
^2872 



\\f 



vf/ C. A. WENDELL v»/ 






Established iSj 



DOLLARD & Co. 



KENNEDY CROSSAN 



1223 Chestnut Street 

PHILADELPHIA 




Gentlemen's Hair Cutting 
Ladies' Hair Dressing . . . 
. . . Ladies' and Children's 
Hair Cutting . Manicures, 
Chiropodists . Facial Has- 
sage ... 




Rooms 710=711 

LAND TITLE BUILDING 



Manufacturers of 

WIGS, TOUPEES, BRAIDS, ETC. 

Shell Goods Toilet Articles 



BROAD and CHESTNUT STREETS 

PHILADELPHIA 






ELEVATORS 



PHILADELPHIA 



SI/ 



MORSE, WILLIAMS &, CO. <•' 



^^ €;€:$: €i^$:€:*«P 



$■$$•.§■€$$•$•$$!$■$!$$:$■§$$$• $i$:$:$!$:$$'$-$:$$:$:$:$:$:$$:$$$'$--^ 



208 



Vt/ /IS 

I I 

* ^ i 

^i; United Gas ^ 



Improvement I 



I Company 

I I 



Washburn Crosby's 

"Gold Medal" Flour 

MAKES THE BEST BREAD 
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE 









Metal Edge Paper 




Write for ParticuUirs 



taiionaipietaiEiigeeoUo. 

6f9, 621 and 623 Cherry Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



Mathias Seddinger. President 

SOMMERS N. Smith, Vice-Prest and Gen. Manager 

Wm. a. WlTHERUP, Secretary and Treasurer 



Y}|£ Established 1838 

Neafie & Levy 

Ship and En§:ine 

Building Co. "penn works" 

IRON AND STEEL 
SHIP AND MARINE 

ENGINE BUILDERS 

Sole Makers of the well known 

Philadelphia Propeller 
Wheel 



BEACH AND PALMER STREETS 

PHILADELPHIA 



GEO. H. McNEELY 



M. G. PRICE 



JAS. H. A. BROOKS 



G. H. McNEELY & CO, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



20th Century Kid 

Office and Salesroom : 112-114 N. 4th St. 
Works: 25th Ward 



Telephone 3796 Cable Address :" CENTURYKID 
WIdebrook and A-B-C Codes Used 



Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A 

Kepre<!entatlves : Tracy Bugs., Hoston, Mass, Spfttauek ti Woi.ff, ioj Bermondsey St. London, Eng. 



PROVIPEliT LIFE - TRUST (0. 

OF PHILADELPHIA 

INSURANCE IN FORCE $122,735,550.00 

ASSETS 37,395,017.01 



The untimely death of a husband and father is almost always the cause 
of financial disaster to his family ; and Life Insurance is the only means ever 
devised by which the consequences of this disaster may be averted or miti- 
gated. Life insurance is needed by all classes— by men of small, of moderate, 
and of large incomes. It is needed by many to save their families from 
poverty or dependence, and by others as a protection against the deprivation 
of comforts, conveniences, and refinements of living, which by use have 
become necessities. 

Ordinarily the head of the family is confronted with two contingencies. 
First, there is the danger that his death may be untimely, and that he may 
leave his family destitute or with an inadequate provision. Secondly, if he 
should escape this calamity, and should live to the commencement of old age, 
he might find himself with failing powers without a competence for himselt 
and wife. An Endowment policy provides against both contingencies, if 
death should occur, the amount of the policy is paid to the family; or if the 
insured should live to the maturity of the policy, the amount is paid to him- 
self as a support for his and his wife's old age. The Provident issues Life, 
Endowment and Term policies, which can be made payable at death in ten, 
fifteen, twenty, twenty-five or thirty instalments, thus saving the widow, 
who is the usual beneficiary, the risk and trouble of investment ; or provision 
can be made for the payment of a fixed income to the widow during life. 

Evidence of the skillful and faithful management of this company is 
found in its exceedingly low expense rate, and the remarkably favorable rate 
of mortality. For the whole period of its existence, the death rate has been 
only .6i of the rate indicated by the authoritative tables. The organization 
of the company affords a strong guaranty of safe management for the future. 
There is the same need for care and intelligent discrimination in selecting a 
life insurance company that there is in selecting investments for a trust fund. 
The question of the first importance in either case is the question of absolute 
security. 

Persons contemplating insurance are invited to address the company for 
rates and general information. 



SAMUEL R.SHIPLEY President 

T. WISTAR BROWN Vice-President 

ASA S. WING Vice-Presidenl 

JOSEPH ASHBROOKf Manager Insurance Departnienl 




Chas. G. Rogers 

HwRliig make! 

AND 

Canvas Printer 

37 N. Tenth St. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Tents, Trunk and Wag- 
on Covers made and Re- 
paired. Window Awnings 
a specialty. Orders by 
mail promptly attended to 

7". I' phone Connection 



Drink Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association 
Celebrated 



t 



aust,.. 

JBlack auD Xlan 
Grjoinal 3Bu^\veiS5cr 

J no. £. Sloan & Co., Sole Agents 

303 Callowhill St., Philadelphia 



Sawyer Electrical Company 

^ 1308 Arch Street 

Telephone 3-45-75 A. ...PHILADELPHIA 

Contractors for ail forms of Electri= 
cal Work, and the Installation of 
Complete Electric Light Plants . ^ 
Wireingfor Electric Lights and Bells 



CONTRACTORS FOR ELECTRICAL 
ILLUMINATION OF THE 



"AVENUE OF FAME" 

Q. A. R. Encampment, 1899 



COURT OF HONOR" 

Peace Jubilee, 1898 



M r% Cir J. O n^ \A/E invite all G. A. R. men and their 

n. U. LlllOt (X UO. ' ^^ friends to call and see 



Importers and dealers of Pa- 
pers of every description 

<^ 

30, 32 and 34 S. 6th St. 

Parchment Papers Pluladelphia, Pa. 



THE WONDERFUL 
311.00 WATCH . . . 



Guaranteed to Keep Correct Time 



G. S. LOVELL CLOCK. CO. 

.\\:iiiut;Kturt'rs' .A^ienls 

1019 and 1021 Market St. 

I'HM.ADELPHIA 



• k -K * • * J A A Is X IE jt Tmnrr 

>_g i i J t X s I '^ )^iX I y i If 'i ' ' * » A > 




BELLEVUE WORSTED MILLS, BENJAMIN W. GREER, PROPRIETOR 

Wister Street, Qermantown 
Manufacturers of Women's Wear in Worsted, Mohair, Silk, and Cotton 





& 




John H. Bromlev 
Edward Bromley 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



SMYRNA CARPETS, SMYRNA 
RUGS; LACE, CHENILLE AND 
TAPESTRY CURTAINS, ^ .^^ 
^ ^ ^ .^ TABLE COVERS, ETC. 



Lehigh Avenue, below Front Street, 
and Front, York and Jasper Streets, 




Black Horse Hotel 

3SO=S4 INorth Second St. 

(Below Callowhill Street i 

Accommodations for Transient and Permanent Guests at-Reasonabfe 
Rates. Newly Fitted Bar stocked witli Choice Wines, Liquors and 
Cigars 

Phone 54=47 A. JOHN H. WEBER 

Proprietor 



Hotel *^ 

257 and 259 N. 2d St., Philadelphia 



Good Accommodations 
Terms Moderate ^^^ 
First =class Bar Attached 



JOHN SMITH, Proprietor 



nnnnnnnnnnnnn 




Rudolpb 



ED. L. REIMANN ) 
ED. NAUMANN S 



2\2-H S. 9th St. 

(Below Waluut) 

Philadelphia 

Proprietors 



mmmmm 



JOHN A. JEHLE, Prop. 



Rates, $t«25 per day, American Plan 



^ed Lioi) ^otel 



AND SALOON 



S. W. Cor. 2d and Noble Streets 



Jt 



PHILADELPHIA 



London Glasgow New York Chicago Boston 
Baltimore 

E R. HAWKINS & CO. 

IMPORTING, COMMISSION 
AND JOBBING 

Cloth House 

A/O. 736 MARKET ST. 

S. E. Cor. of Eiglith St. 

PHILADELPHIA 



J. 



& 



Manufacturers of 



Heaters an^ Ranges 



7(5/9 F/lbcTt St, Philadelphia 



D/iviD n^ri/inoN... 



.^^2i 



Contractor 



...SEWER BUILDING AND STREET PAVING. 



Residence 

E. Cheltcn Ave. and Musgrove St. 

Telephone 9114 A 



^ 



Post Office Building 
GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA 

Telephone 9346 D 



We claim 



be the OLDEST 

HOUSE in the Hard- 
ware Business, with an 
unbroken history, in 

the United States, having records of supplies fur= 
nished to the Continental Armv in 1777. 

In our rear, and just opposite our Church Street 
entrance, is the historic Christ Church, which is well 
worth a visit. When you go there, we cordially in- 
vite you to come over and e.\amine our stock of 
Hardware and Cutlery, including material and tools 
for Builders', Machinists', Manufacturers' and 
Farmers' use. 

Our entrances are Nos. 211 and 213 Market 
Street, and [No. 202 Church Street, just oppo= 
site the Church. 

JAS. M. VANCE & CO. 

PHILADELPHIA 



B lay lock c7' Blyjui 

^,^ Importers and Designers of <^^* 

Hats, Furs ^jpiiliinerij 

824 and 826 Chestnut Street 
^.?«^ PHILADELPHIA .•* Ji .< 




For Flowers *° ^^i^g"" Spring 

Plant Bulbs this Autumn 

Hvacinths, Tulips, Daffodils. Cro- 
cus, etc. 

Call or send for our Autumn Catalogue, it's 
FREE, and tells all about them ; also about Plants, 
Seeds and Sundries. 

HENRY A. DREER 

714 Chestnut St.. Philadelphia 



CAPITAL, $200,000 SURPLUS, $375,000 


W. A. COUCH, Proprietor 




...The... 


Haliooal 
M 01 GeiaDiowD 


CrauJiord 
Hodse 

NO. 1518 MARKET STREET 


PHILADELPHIA 


Meals at all hours 




Rooms by day or week 




Oysters in every style 


Chas. W. Otto, President 

Canby S. Tyson. Vice-President and Cashier 


OPEN ALL NIGHT 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK 



GEO. PHILLER. President 
MORTON McMICHAEL. Jr.. Cashier 
KENTON WARNE. Asst. Cashier 




315 CHESTNUT STREET 



HENRY M. LEWIS, President 
WM. H. GILBERT, Gen. Manager 



J.CLARENCE WHITE, Secretary 
SAMUEL T. JONES, Treasurer 



CABLE ADDRESS: WHITE. PHILADELPHIA 



Ttie 8. S. wnile Denial jOaniilacliirlng Go. 

Founded by Samuel S. White in 184-4- 
Incorporated in 1881 

CHESTNUT STREET, CORNER TWELFTH 

PubUsher DENTAL COSMOS ...PHILADELPHIA 



EUGENE E. NICE 


TRIMBLE 


272 & 274 S. 2d St. 
PHILADELPHIA 


WHISKEY 


Varnishes 

MANUFACTURER J^p^^^^ 

Paints 
Oils 


SOLE PROPRIETORS 

WHITE, HENTZ & CO. 


'^^'torection Brushes 


ESTABLISHED 1793 



Gla 



ss 



Factory, Broad and Bigler streets PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK 



QiW delicacies served 
upon order ^^^^ 



<The choicest Oi^incs, 
Ciquors and Gigars 



OTTO SCHMIDT 



Rest^urjiDt ixii G^fe 



N. W. Cor. Delaware Ave. 
and Chestnut St. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



TboiD^j Keijt 
/\^i}uf2i(turii}$ (o. 





Manufacturers of 



WooieD Gooils 



CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PA. 



Plate Glass Depot 
Looking Glass, French Bevels 
A I'ull line of Ornamental Glass 
Tinted Cathedral Glass 

Enameled. Embossed and Colored Glass 
German Looking Glass Plates 
Large stock French Glass 
American Window Glass 
Skylight and Floor Glass 
Superior Glaziers' Diamonds 



H. 



UNION MILLS 
ROCKBOURNE MILLS 
RI9LEY MILLS 



Manufacturers of 

ARMY and NAAY 
GOODS 



Established Januarj' i, 1843 



205,207, 209 and 211 

INorth Fourth St, 

(above Race) 
PLATE GLASS DEPOT 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 






w 



Jhe Most Brilliant Light 



PRODUCED BY THE USE 
OF THb 



a^ 



Illson incaniiGSGenl Oil System 



FOR STREETS. STORES. HALLS. FACTORIES, 
RAILROAD CARS and STEAMSHIPS 

Gives more light than the so-called 2000 candle-power electric 
arc lamp. 

Since the successful introduction of the Kitson Lamp, thousands of which are now 
in use in this country and al^road, numerous infringing devices have Iven exploited, 
and this Company has entered suit in the United States Courts against the International 
Incandescent Light Company, et al., and against W. L. Doran, et al., for infringonient 
of patents owned by this Company, who will continue lo Nigorously prosecute all 
infringers. 

KIISON HYDRO-CARBON HEATING AND INCANDES- 
CENT LIGHTING CO. 

Eighth and Willow Streets. Philadelphia. 



')^ 



^' ^^■'==i.' ''^- '^^ "'Ji.' ■'^^s.' ^^' '"^* '^^ ^^i:.' ''===::^- ''=5:i' "'^^^ 



N 



Procured for Inventions and Designs. Trade Marks 
Registered. Copyrights secured, Patent Causes, Ex- 
aminations, Searches, etc. Call or send for Book of 



Instructions. 



WIEDERSHEIM &. FAIRBANKS 

No. gig Chestnut Street 



John A. VViedersheim 
Wm. C. Wiedersheim 
E. Havwood Fairbanks 



PHILADELPHIA 



Wm. L. Cooke 



Nelson H. Cooke 
Establistied 1S5; 



Benj. J. Cooke 



B. J. COOKE'S SONS 

Wliolesale Dealers in 

Clocks \ Bronzes 



137 North Third Street 
PHIL iDELPHIA 



MQ-iMdck 



^r;r 1 



M]\>^ ^CCtCE Cecil:: i uf^ 






^'!'f 




The largest $2.00 per day hotel in 
America. 

All latest hotel improveuieuts and 
conveniences. 



^ 



One block from Penna. Depot and 
City Hall. 

One half block from Reading Ter- 
minal and B. & O. Station. 



nn YOII A^yVA7l^ That there is a well-tried and 
U\J #1/1/ nnurr scientific treatment f.ir tlie 
cure of all chronic diseases by the Inhalation of 
Coui|>oun<I Oxjgen? Its wonderful etiect uimn 
Asthma. Bronchitis. Con-umption, Rheumatism, Ca- 
tarrh, Headache, Nervous Frnstration, Neuralgia, la 
Grippe, General Debility, eic, is well-known to t ou- 
saiids, who have been beuetiled after yeais of suflerinn 
and disappointment. 

To all who have tried diH'eient remedies wiihoiii 
success and have become discouraged, our Compound 
Oxygen brings hope and encourngenient It las re- 
stored many chronic sufferers— WIfj' Not Vou ? 

Home or Office Treatment. \Viite for book of l'iiu 
pages, or call and see ii!*. 

DRS. STAR KEY & PALEN 



1112 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa. San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. Toronto, Canada 



Your trade respectfully solicited on 

Rubber Goods 

Rubber Be/ting, Hose, Packings, Mack- 
intoshes, Boots and Shoes, Mats and 
Matting, Tubing, Water Bottles, 
Cushions, Blankets, Ponchos, 

CLOSE PRICES etc., OtC. HEADQUARTERS 

R. Le\/icks Son & Co. 

720 Chestnut St.. Ptiiladelphia 



Eri/ip ^ompapy 



Samuel Welsh 
T. Henry Diicon 
Alfred R. Thomas 



J Boa sail Taylor 



BANKERS AND BROKERS 



Branch Office 
The Land Title Building 



Drexel Building 

Philadelphia 



KEYSTONE ENGINE & MACHINE WORKS 

Cor. 5th and Buttonwood Sts,, Philadelphia 



WILLIAM L. SIMPSON 

Machinist and Engineer 

MANUFACTURER OF 

Engines, Boilers, Pumps, Heaters, Etc. En- 
gines and Power Indicated. 

Special attention given to Repairing Automatic 
and'other Engines. Cylinders Bored Out in 
Position by Special Machinery. 
Sales Agent for the Bucheye Automatic Cut-off Engines 
Office, 5th and Buttonwood Sts. 
Philadelphia 
Telephone 1891... 

i/. G. Grieb & Sons 



Wholesale CASH Dealers in 

Boots, Shoes and Rubbers 

No. 531 Market Street 
Philadelphia 



The year's most popular ^^^ 

NEW BOOKS 

By Maj.-Gen. Wheeler— The Santiago Campaign 
By W. Clark Russell— An Atlantic Tragedy 
By OuiDA— La Strega 
By A. J. D. BiDDLE, F.G.S.A., etc -A Biographical 

Romance 
By w. E. NoRRis— Giles Ingilby 
By E. F. Benson— The Money Market 

For sale at any good bookstore, or sent on ap- 
proval. 

Insist on having this most important literature. 

DREXEL BIDDLE, Publisher 

New Yorh Drexel BIdg., Pliila. London 

MacDonald 5 Campbell 

LEADING MEN'S FUR- 
NISHERS AND SHIRT 
MAKERS OF PHILA- 
DELPHIA 

916 Chesfndf St. 



JOHN MANEELY 

IVroii^g/il Iron Pipe, Valves, Fittings, Etc. 



....Nos. 309, 311 and 313 Arch Street,... 
^^^^^ Philadelphia, Pa. 



LESLEY ^ TRINKLE 



PORTLAND AND 
ROSENDALE 



Successors to J. CAnPBELL HARRIS & CO. 



FAIRMOUNT AVENUE WHARF 



PLASTER AND 

BUILDING MATERIAL 



DelawarT'^Avenue PHILADELPHIA 



TaGony Saving Fm I ^ .. . 

SalBDpIl |R'!iF.t.t. 

Tiiie m m coinpa r,^,^. 



Benj. F. Teller 
Jos. R. Teller 



CAPITAL - $150,000.00 

Surplus and Profits, $45,000.00 

TACONY 
PHILADELPHIA 



Jacob S. Disston, President 

Lewis R. Dick, Vice-Pres. and Trust Officer 

Thos Shallcross, 2d Vice-Pres. 
Robert J Johnson, Secretary 
Warren T. Rawson, Treasurer 



Offers a short cut to all your wants in the 
REAL ESTATE LINE 

FREE WEEKLY AT ALL DRUG STORES 
or fay mail on application to 

lenj. F. Tellef I Bfo. 

606 Chestnut Street 



Real Estate t^«^ 

and Conveyancing 



Charleys J. Pield's Sons 
BUILDERS' HARDWARE 

Carpenters', Machinists' and Contractors' Tools, 
Engineers' and Government Supplies 

633 Market St. and 624 Commerce St. 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



FOUNDED 1792 

e^ 107th Annual Statement dt 
Insurance Company of North America 

OF F»HILADELF»HIA, PENNA. 



JAT^UARY FIRST, 1899. 



Real Estate $ 59(i,477.02 

First Mortgages on Real Estate 2,337,009.20 

U. S. Bonds, Boston, Baltimore, Montreal, and other City 

and State Loans . <S79,250.00 

Pennsylvania, Philadeli^hia and Erie, Lehigh Valley and 

other Companies Bonds and Stocks 4,451,420.00 

Cash in Bank and Bankers' Hands 737,422.75 

Loans with Collateral 16,500.00 

Notes Receivable, and Unsettled Marine Premiums . . . 418,676.29 

Net Cash Fire Premiums in Course of Transmission ... 590,764.13 

Accrued Interest, and all other Property 178,969.51 

Total Assets 810,206.488.90 

LIABILITIES 

Capital Stock S3, 000, 000. 00 

Reserve for Reinsurance 3,927,487.74 

Reserve for Losses 665,012.94 

All other Liabilities 87,432.26 

Surplus Over all Liabilities 2.526,555.98 

810,206.488.90 

CHARLES PLATT. President 
KUGKNK L. ELLISON, Vice-President 
BENJ.\MIN Rl'SH. Second Vice-President 
GRHVILLE E. FRYER, Secretary and Treasurer 
JOHN H. ATWOOU, .Assistant Secretary 
T. HOUARD WRIGHT, Marine Secretary 




COLES FILTER 




GRAND because it's reliable. For 
ARMY or family. In the whole 
REPUBLIC there is none cheaper 
or better. 

REMEMBER 

We use Natural Stone, which can be 
cleaned in fi\e minutes with an ordinary 
scrub brush. 

PRICES 

$2.oo=-$i4.oo, either Galvanized or 
Nickeled 

Write us upon reaching home, as 
your time will all be tal<en up here. 

Coles Manufacturing Co. 

1615 N. 23d Si., Phila., Penna. 



ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE OFFICES 



nERcnniiLE 
nQEncT 



ESTABLISHED 1841 



DAIRIES 

1908 Oxford Street 

S. W. Cor. 7th and 
Oxford Streets 



BEO. T. GimilEIISTIEIi 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

Milk^ 
Cream 

Main Office: 1908 Oxford St. 
PHILADELPHIA 

Books arranged with trade classifica- 
tion of names 

*fp;2:i:t5The delivery of Absolutely Pure Milk to 

^^^^ Families, Hotels, Institutions, etc., a 

specialty. . i • • 

Mail orders will receive prompt attention WM. T. KOL,PU, Manager, Pbtladelphia 



R. G. DUn ^ C0. 

BETZ BUILDING 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



J. H. Wilson Company, Ltd. 

Q. A. R. SUPPLIES 928 ARCH STREET 

Hats, Caps, Buttons, Flags, Rank Badg:es, Etc. 



^mmimmmmmmm(M>tmmmfflmmtimnwiK 



I Ask 
I for 






our™ 

\^ ILSHER 



Fnre 3 

Wholesome 3 

and 3 

Nutritious 3 




I -<V^- a>---' I 



I C Schmidt & S^iis i 
I BREWERS I 

I 127 Edwjird St. PHILADELPHIA | 




TIX or GREEN'S HOTEL. 



Green's 
•==Hofel 

EIGHTH and 
CHESTNUT STS. 



EUROPEAN-^. 

For Ladies »nd Gentlemen 

Tabic d'Holc Dinner, 50c. 

(from 12 in. to 8 p. m.) 

ORCHESTRA 

DURING 

LUNCH.^ 

12.30 to 2 and 6 to 8 unJ 

10 30 to 12 p. ID. 

Alahlon W. Newton, Sole Proprietor 




5(1 ?" ' 



green's motel 



ROBERT CRAIG 



WM. P. CRAIG I W. H. P.per. 



[ohn H. Levvars 



Robert Craig & Son 

Florists 



IDcritorious 
Hcu) Plants 



Market and Forty-ninth Sts. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



SPECIALTIES 
Roses, Palms, Ferns, Araucarias 
Ficus, Carnations, Crotons 

Telephone 

Cable Address— GIARC 



THE ORIGINAL 

SONMAN '^■^ 

Wliile Asli fiiluiiiioous COAL 



The Purest Fuel for 
Steam and Forging 
Use. Mined only by 

W. H. PIPER & CO. 

GENERAL OFFICE 

Betz Building:, Broad above Chestnut St. 
Pliiladelpliia 

Shipping Wharves — New York Harbor 
Philadelphia and Baltimore. 

Branch Office— 29 Broadway, New 
York. 



D. dkL. Hendrickson, Sales Agent. 



^^*S^#i##ii#S^^#i^##^#^##^<t##^ii€€€€€€€#:€€€€^?###:€#€#€€€€6e€«- 



A. M. FRIEND & CO. 

Bankers and Brokers 

420 SANSOM ST. 
PHILADELPHIA.... 



■**^^-^^^^^^^B-^^^m-^^^^^^m^^^^^^mm^.mm^€m^m:.^^m^^^€m^€^.m^ 



Established 1830 (Telephone) 


Hu^ 


?hes & Mul er 


^CLi^icL J^, 






^oftij^ulc^ Y Sc-yi,^ 




* 


. Undertakers . 

*i. - i/"^ 




10J5-IOJ7 
Chestnut St. 
Philadelphia 


S. W. Cor. Sixth nnd Diamond Sts. 






S. W. Cor. Broad and Diamond Sts. 




* 


PHILADELPHIA 






Post 63. G.A.R. 


SUPERIOR CLOTHES TO ORDER 



Spa 



i»' 



712 CHESTNUT STRE.ET 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



ONE BLOCK FROM READING RAILWAY TERMINAL STATION . . 



j^J'lorcncc... 



Gate: 

TABLE 

D'Hote: 



ELEVENTH STREET 



ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN 

Rooms, $7.00, 75 and 50 Cents per clay. 
DINNER. 5 30 TO 8 00 O'CLOCK 



Beiiieeii Market and Chestnut 
ufjpositu Bimjham House 



ALLEN B, RORKE 



Contractor 
and Builder 



e^ e^ e^ e^ e^ e^ e^ PHIL A.DEL PHI A. ^^ v-^ v^a ^s --^ v^s ^^ 

308 BOURSE BUILDING 



-J < 



a 



< 
ui S 

DC < 

^° 
O 2 



c6 



c 

o 

o 



z 

O 



o 

CD 

u 
o 

O - 



c/i 

u 

o 
a 



^ 22 

E ^ 

O 3 

3 
C 








_ o B3 
-) >- Bu, 

CQ M 

e 

z «< 

o ri 

« C/) A. 

-J* 

« 



oc-: 



O 



(/) 



CO U ™ OCc^-tOOFZii 

o 



^ Z C ~, Q ^ 

i^m<moS?tzQ 



it tr 2 o 



Z Q -J - 
- OS 




i 

w 



is 

Q <s 



FLEISCHMANN'S 

VEGETABLE YC ACT 
COMPRESSED I LHO I 

HAS NO EQUAL 



John McBrearly 



Designer anj Manufacturer of 



D)cn's 
Hand-made 



Shoes 



JOHN S. THACKERAY BENJ. C. ELLIOTT 

Thackeray &, Elliott 



No. 50 N. Third St. 

PHILADELPHIA 

Change Wanted lt'^^^^^^!lr ^:^^. 

Bread doesn't suit. Try 

Freihofer's 
Famous . . 
Vienna 

ITS SURE TO SATISFY 

BAKERY AND OFFICE 
TWENTY-FOURTH AND MASTER STS. 



PJatters 



808 CHESTNUT STREET 



PHILADELPHIA 



Umbrellas Sole Agents for 

Walking Sticks <=^ Youman's Hats 



ROBINSON & CO. 

BANKERS 
118 and 120 DREXEL COURT 

PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



C. C. KEMPTON 
...& SON... 



Manufacturers of 



LASTS 



Brass Ed^e and Zinc Boof and ShoO PttttemS 



INo. 320 Race Street, 



P H I L_7^ D E L- R H 1 K. 



Electric Bells 

Heated by Steam All Modern Improvements 

Hotel has been Remodeled Throughout 

Cbe 
Bagle Rotel 



J. A. UMHOLTZ 
PROPRIETOR 



227=229 N. Third St., Philadelphia 



RATES, $1.50 PER DAY 



mm»nmnmmm 



The Regal Shoe 



$3 



.50 



L. C BLISS & CO. 

109 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 
Factory, Whitman, Mass. 

STORES 

BOSTON, 109 Summer Street 

PROVIDENCE. 220 Westminster Street 
NEW YORK, 115-117 Nassau Street 
NEW YORK, 1347 Broadway 
NEW YORK, 2^1 Broadway 

BROOKLYN, 3S7 Fulton Street 
PHILADELPHIA, 732 Chestnut Street 
B.'M. ITMORE, 21Q E. Baltimore St. 

WASHINGTON, 1003 Pennsylvania Avenue 
PITTSBURGH. 309 Fifth Street 

CLEVELAND. 17 Euclid Avenue 
DETROIT, 122 Woodward Avenue 
CHICAGO, 215 Dearborn Street 

CHICAGO, 103 Dearborn Street 
DENVER, 413 i6th Street 

UTICA 4 LaFayette Street 
ALBANY, 34 Maiden Lane 

BUFFALO, 362 Main Street 

ATLANTA. GA . 6 Wnitehall Stren 
CINCINNATI, 13-15 East tli Street 
ST. LOUIS, 618 Olive Street 



Philadelphia Cigar 
Factory 

W. K. Roedel Co. 

manufaciuFers of 
Fine Gioars for ttie 
JoDDiDQ Trade . . 

147 N. 9th St. 

Established 1875 





Kitchen & Bounds 
lianeh Rooms and Restaurants 

w w w w ^ ^ ^B ^ ^ * " ' 

15 Sooth 1 3th St., and 
720 Sansom Street J^jf- 






PHILADELPHIA 



I FREE 

I CONSULTATION 

I WITH . , . 

2 our home treatment We are physi- 

# cians and y.ju get the betiefit of our 
5 experience. No matter what your 
i trouble is. how simple or how hope- 

# less, we can do you gool, and if we 
5 can't we will honestly tell you so. 5 
S Thonsandsof tired, weary, sick, hope- S 
5 less people have been entirely and j 
S permanently cured by J 

I Compound I 

I Oxygen | 

5 Whv not take heart again and inves- ^ 

S titja'te this great principle. We've # 

# thousands of testimonials. Send for 5 
5 b ^ok on home treatment, wonderful S 
S cures, advice to the sick, etc., free. J 

I Drs.Starkev&Palen I 

f Room, 1112 Glrard St.,Phlla.,Pa, | 



Huntingdon 

y| MM f^ K^ %c^ %3^ 

Broad Top ^ 
MountainRd. 
and Coal Co. 




SPENCeR M. JANNEY, President 

Manhattan Building, Philadelphia 

CARL M. GAGE, General Manager 
liuntingdon, Pa. 






GENERAL OFFICE 

S. E. Cor. Walnut 
and Rourth Sts. 



PHILADELPHIA 






Janney, Steinmetz & Co. 

Coal Sale Agents 
Drexel Building Philadelphia 



V. C. Sweatman 



Maltster 



I I 2 Callowhill Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



The only licensed Picnic Ground in 
. . . Philadelphia . . . 



•»: g:$$ : g6 «- 



Philadelphia . 
iUashin^ton 



^ 




Park . . . . 



26th Street and /llleghenv 



This Park can be rented for Picnics, etc. For further information, please 
call at the Park Office. 

LOUIS QOOS, Proprietor. 



G. A. R, Alenus a Specialty, 



1108 

Chestnut Street 

Philadelphia 




We have our own Pliot.i- 
graph Gallery for Half Tone 
and Photo Engravings. 



Fashionable Engraving and Stationery 

LEADING HOUSE FOR 

College, School and Wedding Invitations, Dance Programs 
Menus and Fine Engraving of all kinds 



Before Ordering Elsewhere Compare Samples A^o Prices 
PROGRAMS, ENGRAVED CERTIFICATES, ETC., IN THE BEST STYLE 



Established 1871. 



Thomas T. Rockett, 

No. 635 North Nineteenth Street, 

"""'"'""" "lESIEHS UNO RANGES WIIH PftlENI SHMIIG GRdlES 

Also PLUMBING, GAS PITTING, TIN ROOFING, Etc., and General Jobbing of all kindi. 



THE BEST IN 
I THE MARKET. 



ESTABLISHED 1863 



PARTRIDGE & SON 

(E. Frank Partridge, Prop.) 
WELL KNOWN AND RELIABLE 

Restaurant and Lunch Rooms 

Open from 7 a. m. to 8 pm. 
Ice Cream, Ices and Fine Cake Bakery. Our Ice Cream 
and Ices a continued specialty. Estimates given for 
weddings and parties, and competent waiters furnished 

15 NORTH EIGHTH STREET 







PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



William Ki'ause & Sons 
Cement Co. 



MANUFACTURERS 
OF HIGH-CRAOE 



Portland Cements 

Works 

Martin's Creek. Peiina. 



General Paving 
Contractors 

Office 

1621-23 North Fifth St.. Phila., Pa. 



W. STOKES KIRK 

1627 North Tenth Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



ft5"Every member of your Post is cordially 
invited to our Store, to see the Grandest Display of 
Arms and Curios from the Four Great American 
Wars. 

;8S°Store open to the Public Night and Day, 
during Encampment onl\-. Free. 

Factory: Dunkirk, N. Y. 

City IVlill: N. E. cor. 21st and Washington Ave. 

Up'town Oftice and Warehouse : 

2917=21 N. Broad St. 



Alcott, Ross & Scully Co. 

Builders' 
Mill Work 

18th St. & Washin§:ton Ave., Phila. 



W. H. NEWBOLD'S SON «c CO. 

Dote and Stock Brokers 

INVESTMENT SECURITIES 

113 South fifth Street 



DREXEL BUILDING 



PHILADELPHIA 



PAPERS 



Book Cloth and Leather 



Glazed, Embossed. Gold, Silver, | 

Enameled and imitations of ^Xi 

m 

for Box Makers, Bookbinders, ^v 

and Printers. ^ 

So'e Agents for $ 
'The Celebrated Brehmer Wire 
Stitchers." 



Charles Beck Paper Co. 



.Limit d. 



MACHINERY 



607 and 609 



CHESTNUT STREET Philadelphia 



J.S. BACHE & CO. Wear 



Bankers and Brokers 

Members of New York Stock, Cotton, Coffee and 
Produce Exchanges, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago 
Stock Exchange, Philadelphia Sto;k Exchange, New 
Orleans Cotton Exchange. 



"Won Brand" 



114 CUSTOM HOUSE PLACE 


Liinen Collaps 


DREXEL BUILDING 

Branch Office PHILADELPHIA 
401 Betz Building 


and Cuffs 

BEST IVIADE 


fl. B. CdnniDgham 




you can find it in all parts of the city... 




5 Company 




Lifter's 


Wholesale Dealers in 




T-'OBACCO 
•■■ CIGARS, 




PURE WE CREAM 


Etc, 


Do not fail to try it before leaving 


236 Market Street 




the city 

FACTOR r 


.*fc^ PHILADELPHIA 


American and Gaskell Sts. Telephone 5572 



J. A. Doughertg's Sons 
Distillers of Punc Rge 
tlihist^e^, Pl^iladelphia 



Salesmen Wanted. 



The business easily learned. 
Write for terms and territory. 




HOME OrFICE 

rue jfKi.sff.w TiSEJifb.^ 



GOOD WAGES AND EXPENSES, OR COMMISSION IF PREFERRED. 

PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT FOR HONEST, EN^GET[CJVIEN 

Address THE R. G. CHASE COMPANY, South Penn Square, Philada. 



Uniforms 

For Bands, Firemen, Police, 
G. A. R., Sons of Veterans, etc. 

MANUFACTURED BY 

Geo. Evans & Co. 

132 /N. Fifth St. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

North, South, East and West 
Cann's Kidney Cure has stood the test ; 
In every land and in every clime 
It does its vvork in the shortest time, 
Relieving the back of its constant pain 
And giving us health and strength again. 
Afllicted humanity, make haste to apply 
Cann's Kidney Cure, for why will you die? 



If you are a sufferer from any 
Kidney Trouble write Ca.vn & 
Co., 1023 Filbert St., Philadelphia, 
for testimonials. 



ISA.^c Porter 



Harry T. Porter 



Robert Porter's Sons 

Manufacturers of I J[]^ Cj-Zxi^O 

For Paint, Varnish, Putty, Oil, Tar, 
Lead, Preser\-es, Jellies, Spices, Mus- 
tard. Lard, Butter, Pat. Biscuit Boxes, 
Confectionery, Grocers' Canisters, 
Pumps, Measures, Scoops, etc. 

326-8 N. 2d St. Factory, 609-11-13 St. John St. 
PHILADELPHIA 

THE 

E.H.Artman-Treiehler 
Gompany^-^- 

713 Market St. 

PHILADELPHIA 



2}6 



L. Y. SCHERMERHORN, President 



JAMES N. KNIPE, Secretary and Treasurer 



WILLIAM J. BRADLEY, General Superintendent 




merican 
Dredging 
Co. 



CONTRACTORS FOR 



River and Harbor 

Improvements 



236 Walnut Street 



— PHILADELPHIA 




TThomas A* 
Biddle & Co* 

BANKERS 

AND 

BROKERS 



326 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 



Tunis & Company 



315^^^ 1^^^' 



, ??♦ ♦ ♦ 

mb Brokers 



Philadelphia 



238 




R. J. Watson. Presideiil iiiid Manager 
H. K. Heritage. Tieas. .1 II. SL.WV, ?5pc'y 

Quaker Citv Fruit Co. 

Asiociated with 
Boston Fiuit Cj., Boston an<l Jamaica 

Inipoilers of 

BANANAS oSr Tropical Fruit 

Pier 5, Dorlb Ulbarvcs, and 
no. 6 Vine $1. 

Passenger Mail steamers wiekly for . Jamaica. VV. I. 
Cable Address. " IIekitaok." 



Security from Loss by Burglary, Robbery, Fire or Accident. 



THE FIDELITY 

Insurance, Trust <S: Safe Deposit Co, 

OF F»HIL.A.DELF»H[IA. 

In its marble fire-proof building 327-331 CHESTNVJT ST. 



Capital, $2,000,000. 



CHARTER PERPETUAL. 



Surplus, $2,000,000. 



Securities and Valuables of every description, including Bonds and S[ocl<.s, PLiie Jewelry, Deed's, 
etc.. taken for Sale-keeping on Special Guarantee at the Lowest Kates. 

The Company also Rents Safes inside its Burglar-proof Vaults at rates ranging from 55 to J200, according to 
size. Rooms and desks adjoining vaults provided for Safe-renters 

Deposits of Money received on interest. Incomes collected and remitted for a moderate charge. 

The Company acts as Executor, Administrator and Guardian, and Receives and Execute* Trusts of evrrv 
description from the Courts. Corporations or Injividu-ls. 

All I'rust Func s and Investments are kept separate and apart from the as-ets of the Company. As addi- 
tional securiiy the Company has a Special Trust Capital of §i,coo,ooo, primal ily responsible for its tiu>i 
obligations. WMls receipted for and kept safely without charge. 



JOHN B. GEST. Pres dent, 
KOtiERT M. ^ COTT, Treasurer, 
GEORGE S. CLAKK, Safe Supt. 



CHARLES ATHERTON, Vice-Pre,ident. 
H. G )RDON McCOUCH, Secretary. 
ALEXANDER BURVES, Real Estate Officer. 



EDWARD W. CLARK 
WILLIAM H MERRICK, 
JOHN B. GEST 
CLEMENT A GRISCOM. 



THOMAS DOLAN, 
JOHN C. BULLITT, 
GEORGE PHILLER, 
RUDULPH ELLLS, 



AIE.KANDER ]. CASSATT 
CHARLES ATHERTON, 
HENRY W. RIDDLE. 




Cdestern )Vew Yorh 

and 

Pennsylvania 

Railway Company 




>URE! OEUCIOUS 




1320 CHESTNUT ST. 
PHILADELPHIA. 



Large Variety of Fancy Boxess Baskets 
suitable for PRESENTS. 

CANDtES SENT EVERYWHERE BY MAIL OR EXPRES& 
MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE MOST CAREFUL AnENTIOM 

^^^^ COCOA & CHOCOLATES 

IMEBWUIOfDRniUTYlFUVIlll MUtlllllll SIUB t RYUOCUS CVUIYWHUS. 



Josepn StrauDillBr's 



Telephone 

S, 2506 



BREWERY and 

BOTTLING 

ESTABLISHMENT 

Trenton Ave., York, 
Emlen and Adams Sts. 

i1 TTTTT irrTFTTTI 

" Ulmer Doppel Stock Lager " 



A Cigar Fit For Heroes 

NAPOLEON. . . . 
5c. STRAIGHT 



Correspondence 
Solicited 



C. L PARKE, Agent 

936 Arch Street 



Geo. G. Geyer 
& Co.. 
Makers 



An agent wanted in every city and town. 
Correspondence Solicited 



A. L. Butz, Edw. D. Barrett F. A. Butz, 

'Tresident Tremsurer Secretary 

A. L, Butz 

♦ . .Cork Company 



OFFICE AND FaCTOH\ 



829-31-33-34. and 35 N. THIRD St. 

Philadelphia 
Established and running nearly 50 years 



Headquarters : 
Gen. Ladner Post No. S, Lynn. Mass. 



HOTEL 



Girard... 



62e-33 Girard /»ve. 
1213 north Scvcntb'St. 



American and European Plan 

Ladies' and Gentlemen's Cafe 
Attached 

Newly Furnished. Steam Heat. Electric Lights 
and all modern conveniences. 



Henry Hess, George J. Miller, 

President Vice-Preiident 

B. F. Horan, 



Secretary 



Jacob J, Hitschler, 
Treasurer 



The Conslirners Br?u}ing Co. 

Lager Beer, Ale and Porter 

Brewery Departments 
John Koehm - - Dept. Mutual Brew'g Co. Depl. 

Spaeth & Hess - Dept Kxcelsinr Brewg Co. Depl. 

John 0. Miller Brew'g IJo., Depl. 

WeMe & Thomas Rrpw'ir Co. D.-pt. 



General offices 

BULLITT BUILDING 
Philadelphia 



Telephone 

374 



Jos. Gkiger, 

Pre.sident 



(i^ovij^ Keller 



Frank Baingo, 
Sec. & Treas. 



Brewers of 



Fine Lager Beer 

;Vlso Bottlers 

Cor. 33d $ master $1$.. Pbila., Pa. 



VISIT. 



K^U^^' 



S ® ® ® 



Antique Stores 



216-18-20-22 S. 9th Street 

They are filieJ with the finest collection 
i)f Antique Furniture, Silver, Sheffield, China 
and Brass Wares. Grandfather Clocks. 

You will spend an interesting hour of your time. 



Baker's Cod Liver Oil jfhi'tiP^"^^' q^ 

and easily borne by the md§t^ delicate stomach, if begun in 
small dose. Established over a half century and now better than ever. 



Bv presciibing Baker's Cod Liver Oil ^^^^flnilll A DllfCB AA nL"l J I I.' 

perfect satisfaction will be assured.... ilUHII Ui DflRtK wUi) rnil3Q6lpnl3 



Michael O'Rourke 

Cotitractot: 
anb Builber 

FIDELITY MUTUAL BLDG. 

BRANCH OFFICE: 1107 Walnut St. 

PHILADELPHIA 




The Mosebach 



CATERING. 

RESTAURANTS. FINE BAKERY and 

CONFECTIONERY 



i2^g-4i Ciiard Avenue 18-20 North Eighth Street 

120";- i2og North Thirteenth Street 
160s North Broad Street 



The Laurel Hill Cemetery 

Situated on Ridge Ave. 

B«t^|f"34th PHILADELPHIA 

and 36tn Streets 

THE LAUREL HILL CEMETERY is the old- 
est suburban Cemetery in the United States, 
with the exception of Mt. Auburn in Boston. 
Founded in 1835, •' ^'^s long been famous among 
the places of interest in h'hiladelphia, for the 
natural beauty of its site and scenery (embel- 
lished by much skill and labor), the magnificence 
and variety of its monuments, and the names of 
the distinguished dead who lie buried within its 
walls. Occupying one of the most exquisite 
situations in the neighborhood of rhiladclphia, 
on the high and wooded bank of the Schuylkill 
River (adjoining East and opposite West Fair- 
mount Park), it is easily reached on foot, as well 
as by steamboat, trolley car, and carriage (via 
drives in East Park), and steam cars (via Penn- 
sylvania Railroad from Broad and Market 
Streets, to Ridge Avenue Station, a few squares 
from the Cemetery, and via Reading Railroad 
from depot Twelfth and Market Streets and 
Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets to station on 
the Cemetery ground). It is peculiarly and per- 
fectly protected from encroachments by its sur- 
roundings, hiving Ridge Avenue on the east, the 
river on the west, and the Park on the remaining 
sides. 

Benjamin W. Richards, Treasurer 
Telephone 13673 Offi ce. 45 S. 17th St. 

Lots can be obtained at the Cemetery or at 
Company's Office. The Laurel Hill Cemetery 
has no connection with any other Cemetery. 



Keystone Hotel.... 



EUROPEAN PLAN 



Located in the Centre of the City One minute from 
Broad St Station and Public Buildings. 3 minutes from 
Reading Terminal. Convenient to Business and all points of 
interest. 109 elegantly furnished rooms. Steam Heat. 
Electric Bells, Etc. .■. 



EDWARD L. SCROLL. Proprietor 



1524 to 1542 MARKET STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 




You can rely upon 

Seeds, Bulbs and 

Garden Implements 

which you may purchase at 



MicheH's 



Seed 
Store 



1018 MARKET ST,, PHILADELPHIA. 



Cheshire 

Chair Co. 



Manufacturers and Wholesale 
Dealers in 



Chairs and 
Hurniture 

Warerooms : 

:201=3=S IN. 2cl St. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



Factory, Keene, N. H. 



Ph. J, Lauber, 1861 C. H. Reisser, 1884 

G. A. Soulas, 1895 

Giistav A. Soulas 

Successor to Reisser's 

Restaurant 

Philadelphia's 
Origfinal 

Raths = Keller 



The Oldest Established Restaurant 
in Philadelphia J> J- J' J' 



II, 24 am 26 Souiii Fiiin Street 



Opposite the Bourse 



GANNON & COMPANY 

Agents for the Celebrated 

CLEVELAND BEER PUMPS 
. . . AND FAUCETS . . . 

Carbonic Beer Pumps, Bungs, Tubes, f- 
Boxes, Worl< Boards and Hand Pun1p^ 

Made by The Bishop li: Babcock Co. 
at Cleveland, Ohio 

134 North Tenth Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



AIR OUTLET 




WATER 
REGULATOR 




UNION POS 

POST CARD-SRE^erjg^yffl ^WSA; 

(GRAKDE BRETACxKK.'Jip" IBLA?.'PK1 



PS a. 



Ao*- ^i-r.^.^^*^ / ^i^I^Z^ i^. ^«^ 






We pleased Mr. Zan^will and we will try to please you. 
270 S. 2d St., Philadelphia. 



E. GOLDENSKY, 
Photographer. 



g Standard Cab Co. 

1420-28 So. Penn Square 

South Side of Public Bldgs. 

STANDS 

HOTEL BELLEVUE HOTEL LAFAYETTE 

Telephone 1=24-21 

Orders by telephone or messenger services will re- 
ceive prompt attention 

Elegant Carriages, Coupes, Hansoms, Victorias, 
Tea Carts, Dog Carts, Tally-Ho Coaches, Buggies, 
etc., for Shopping, Weddings, Receptions and Pleas- 
ure Driving, to hire by the hour or trip. 

SAML. M. KAHN, Proprietor 

....Long Distance Telephone 

Nye & Tredick 



'IREftDlS!!! 



flANUFACTURERS OF 



Circular Knitting Machinery 
Plain and Automatic .-. .-. .-. 



Do you know what $2.50 per year will 
secure? 

Identification, Legal Advice, Weekly Indemnity 
for accidental injuries, $1000.00 Accident Insurance, 
and reiurn of lost keys, for which we pay re- 
ward. 

Active Agents wanted. Liberal Commission paid. 

If you want this for nothing send for particulars. 

Pliiyelptiia Ideotitf Registrf Companf 

1510 and 1511 Land Title Building 

BINDER 

31-3-5 8 ism SI. Bingiian House Siioii 

The best known and the most elegantly ap- 
pointed Barber Shops in the country .... 



No. 606 Arch Street 
PHILADELPHIA, PA., U.S.A. 



13th Street 

above Chestnut 



VIENNA CAFE 

Binder BuiioioQ 

b/vse:ivke:nt 

The handsomest popular-price Caf6 in the 
City. Light lunch at popular prices. Oysters 
our specialty 



Van Horn ^ Son 



TELEPHONE 
No. 5842 



CostumeFs and Armorers 

121 N. MINTH ST., rHlLflBELrm/l, Ffl. 



Theatrical Costumes and Outfits for Stage Productions, Street Pageants and 

Carnivals. Designers of Floats, and Contractors for the Civic Day 

Parade, Philadelphia Peace Jubilee, and the Historical Pageant 

of the National Peace Jubilee, Washington, D. C. 



L. BAMBERGER & CO. 



PACKERS OP 



kti Lfif 



tTP 



AND IMPORTERS OF 




III Arch Street, Philadelphia 



W. A. HAUG 



Imported, Key West 
and Domestic 

Cigars 

No. 17 N. oth street 

PHILA, 



Tobacco and 
Smokers' Articles 



JEFFERIS GLASS WORKS 



324 AND 326 BOURSE BUILDING 

PHILADELPHIA 



Manufacturers of high grade 



BOTTLES 



FOR Brewers, Bottlers. 
AND Patent Medicine 
Manufacturers 



factories I "'"^o"' "-" 

I ROCHESTER, PA, 



GOOD PICTURES 

create pretty thoughts. We've 
got hundreds of the prettiest 
subjects ever framed. And the 
framing is just as artistic as the 
picture. That's because we know 
how to do it. 

An Elegant Souvenir 

POINTS OF INTEREST IN PHILADELPHIA 

Only 25 Cents 

OTTO SCHEIBAL 

MANUFACTURER OF PICTURE FRAMES 

16 N. Ninth St. Philadelphia 



H. & W. H. LEWIS, 



No. 238 Chestnut Street, 



PHILADELPHIA 



QiiTolton Hotel 



^\^•< Arch Street 



Pllli;/\r>l:LPIIIA 




A pamphlet, map and Railroad Time-table is published by the Cemetery containing all required informa- 
tions. Rules, Regulations, Sizes and Prices of Lots. etc. They can be obtained upon application either at] the 
City Office or the Lemetery. 

Stephen Girard Building, Room 201, 12th and Girard Sts., Philadelphia. 



Pacemaker 

IN 

Printing 

HtXNtST TXPt 
PROPtR PftNCtS 



Quick 

Clever 

productions 

THE Jenson Press 

38-40-42 
So. 16th St., Phi lad a. 



GEORGE ESSLINGER k SON 

Brewers and Bottlers of 

Adonis and Columbian Export Beer 

AND PORTER 
Office, 417 North Tenth Street 

Brewery, 414 to 422 and 415 to 421 Rugan St. 




SP[CiALTY-HOT AlR-fU 



MANUFACTURED BY 

THOMAS, ROBERTS, STEVENSON CO. 

SOLD BY ALL DEALERS 



"THE GEM" 

Restaurant 

4th and Market Streets 

PHILADELPHIA 

" piPst-Class in every pespeet " 

" Everything the best" 
•' Ppiees modepate " 

Special arrangfements made for 
the accommodation of visiting; 
strangfers and Grand Army men, 
during encampment week. 



esTABLisHED /gye 



tmmm RBnlOTiroR % 




te;/ 



ICE oS 



J^ECMANIGAL 

R EPRIGERATION , 



PlAA/S ANO £ST/M/tr£S 
'0/fA//S^£0 rO/t COL D 

O/VA fiO^Al Tr BAStS 



C.'FicES and Salesrooms ' — ^ 

1433-35-37 MARSHALL ST 

Factory. 1432-34-36 n. sixths? 



Telephone 52646 f- B. atkins mgr. 

PHILADELPHIA 



General 
Electric Automobile Co. 



Makers of Electric Delivery Wagons 
Phaetons and Carriages 
Storage Batteries, etc. 

Office, 408 Bourse Building 

Factory, 4368 Main Street 

Manayunk, Philadelphia 



C. H. Vanfleet 



P,'BBOH 

Badges 

' AND 

Banners. 



J. H. Vanfleet 



BADGE 
PLATE 
and JOB 

PRINTERS 



ifflli 

132 South 8th St., Philadelphia 

I'adges for P.a'ls, Parties, etc., a specialty. 
Programs ami Invitations primed at short notice. 
Q. A. R. Work a Specialty. 



Antonio Roig:,Laiigs(lorf&: 
DuQuesncUd. 

Manufacturers of the celebrated 

ROIQ'J CIQAR5 

FACTORY 

3i7» 3'9 321 N. 7th Street, Phila. 

J. G. Brill Co. 

Philadelphia, U. S. A. 

Builders of 

Street and Siibiirban Cars, 
Electric, Cable, Trail or Motor 

v u X w ^^ <t?* t2^ *2^ ^^ t^' «^^ 



THE MOORE &. WHITE CO. 



Paper Mill Machinery 
Friction Clutches 
Cut-off Couplings, etc 



15th Street and Lehigh Ave. 

Philadelphia, Pa 



246 




The Penn Hetal ^e^is" 
Ceiling and Roofing Co. 

Limited 

Cor. 23d and^Hamilton Sts. 

PHILADELPHIA. PA. 

Always write us for prices on Metal Roofing or 
Corrugated Sheets and Steel Brick— PAIN FLD OR 
GALVANIZED. 



HORN & HARDART 
RESTAURANTS 



21 and 23 N. Ninth Street 
39 S. Thirteenth Street 
104 S. Eighth Street 
111 and 40 S. Broad Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Boston : 
105 Summer St 



C,'^ 



rAaOfiS AMD AfAAfOfACruffEffS Of r/fe POPl/LAff 



^^^^mm^^ 



New York : 
Broadway, cor. 8th 



Philadelphia : 
Home Office and Plaut 



Ciiic.\GO : 
Palmer House 



rspsv^ira 



Creamof olives ointm ent 



CURES CATARRH ASTHMA HAY FEVER 
MUMPS CROURCAKED BREAST 
FIRE&SUN BURN. CHAFING. 
BUNICNS&TIRED FEET. 
CHAPPED FACE. LI PS & HANDS 
SAFE REMEDY FOR PILES^ 
ALL DRUGGISTS or MAILED FOR 25<t 
■ ^HT.MASON CHE MICAL CCSISAhchStPhmRI; 



siinnsisiManininH 

IMASONS HEALTH DEFENDERS! 



- ARE EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY T 
L FREE FROM CALOMEL.OPIUM & ALOES r- 



lYELLOW TABLETS CURE DYSPEPSIA 

BROWN CONSTIPATIONI 

RED COUGHsf 

WHITE SORE THROAT 



L 4-0 TABLETS 10 CENTS__v 

e rOR SALE IT DRUCCttTS OR MAILCO rORPRICL 1 



liHlir^i'iii' 



[♦if 



PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC 

VEHICLE CO. Telephone 1-47-3:; 

Service of Electric Cabs and Broughams available 
to the public at any hour of the day or night. 

Electric Phaetons, Victorias, dos-a-dos- 
Traps, Surreys, Opera Busses for Hire. 

For rates apply to the station 
250-6 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia 

jVJcDONNELL'S 

LIGHT LUNCH CAFE 

Open All Night 

No. 709 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 

YHE HOLLAND CAFE AND 
RESTAURANT 
204 Market Street 

Steaks, Chops and Salads 
Commutation Tickets for Sale 

Philip J. Ritter Conserve Co. 

Preserved and Canned Fruits and Vegetables, 

Fruit Syrups and Juices, Catsup, Salad 

Dressing and other Condiments 

AWARDS 

Two Gold Medals, Louisville, Ky., 1883. 
First Premium. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1879-80-83-S4 
New York American Institute, ibyg 
Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa , 1876 
First Premium, World's Columbian Exhibition 
Highest Award Wherever Exhibited 
Office— 2156 E. Dauphin St., Phila., Pa., U. S. A 

JAMES GOPSILL'S vSONS 

Publishers of 
Gopsill's Directories 

518 Walnut Street 

PHILADELPHIA 

S. B. RoNEY, Manager 
QARRETT- BUCHANAN CO .MP ANY 

....PAPliR 

3, 5 and 1 2 Decatur Street 

PHILADELPHIA 

ri ITCH ELL, FLETCHER & CO. 

GROCERS 

Chestniu and Twelftli Sts. 
Cliestiiut and Eighteenth Sts. 

5708 Germatown Ave. 
Phi'ailelphia 



Wm.M. Huey. Established 1837. Amos H. Christ. 

HUEY & CHRIST, ,,% 

Importers, 
No. 1209 Market Street, 

Philadelphia. 

Sole Proprietors Bailee's Pure Rye. Sun Gin, Dr. 
Stosver's Bitters. Spanish Cocktail Bitters. 



JOHN SHANAHAN, Telephone 5024 D. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in 

Milk and Cream, 

Manufacturer of PURE ICE CRE.A-M, 
Office, Factory and General Depot, 

776 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hotels, Restaurants and other large consumers 
served at special rates. 



TfHE MORGAN COMPANY, 
Cigars, 

Flor de Garde Cival, 
,,_ . c, , Florde Apodixis, 

Omce and Salesroom, Prentisco 

„, Naitilo, 

201-203 Chestnut St., Appodictic, 
Sylana. 

Philadelphia. 
ST. JAMES HOTEL, 

European Plan, 

308 and 310 Race Street, Philadelphia. 

Open All Night. /. /. Forney, Prop. 

Rooms. 2 cents to $1.00 per Night. J1.23 to J3.50 
per Week. 

£DW. N. MOORE, ...Manufacturer... 

Importer of Havana Cigars. 

Fresh Imported and Key West Cigars. Genuine B. F. 
Gravely Chewing Tobacco. 
Public Telephone Station . . 

. . Long Distance Telephone No. 6,-38. 

N. W. Cor. Second and Chestnut Streets, 

Factory 1536 N. 23d St. Philadelphia, Pa. 



J^ B. MEREDITH, Successor to the 

La Bon Collation Comp.\ny, 
Nos. 31 and 33 South Ninth Street, 

(Under the Girard House.) 

Open Day and Night. Light Lunch at Popular 

Prices, and Prompt Service. 

Can accommodate several thousands daily 

RESERVED FOR 
JACOB SCHREIBER & SON 

BOTTLERS 

355 S. 61st St., Philadelphia 



248 



]Vl^ p. KNERR, HOME RESTAURANT 

Full course meals 15 cents, at all 
hours. Special arrangement for 
the G. A. R 

143 N. Eighth St. PHILADELPHIA 
\YALTER BLODGETT'S SALOON 

232 North Ninth Street 
Phii,adei.phia 
Successor to 
Walter Campbell 

Choice of Wines, Liquors and Cigars 

SAMUEL F. WOODHOUSE 

Mauufiicturcr'of 

Liquid and Paste Fillers 

Pure Colors, Varnishes and Japans. 
Sole agent in U. S. for Ex/jressly for Painters' 

OnreSLO- Water Paint and Decorators' Use 

Works : Unity & Franklin Sts., Frankford, Pa. 

3AMUEL HART & SONS 

Charles P. Hart John S. Hart 

Contractors, Bricklayers 
AND Builders 

Office, 1 109 Fairmount Avenue, Phila. 

GOSSLER^&mj 

Wall Paper Company 



Office and Factory 
S. W. Cor. nth and Catharine Sts. 



Philadelphia 



pRED FEIL 

Beer Brewer 
Office — 2207 North Sixth Street 
2200-16 Fairhill Street 
Sixth St. and Susquehanna Ave. 
Philadelphia 

fHE STANDARD LAUNDRY CO. 
Incorporated 

Under the State Laws of Pennsylvania 
216 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia 
Telephone 41-95 
PANCOAST & MACLEOD 

Bankers and Brokers 

137 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia 
'Telephone loi i 




I'S 



The real and only 

genuine 
Borax Soap 

in the world. Full pound bars, at grocers 
everywhere. Made by Comrade Wm. 
Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa. 



C. C. ROSEriBERG 



Julius Hirschberc 



EL PROVEDO 
CIGAR FACTORY 



No. 414 Dist. 

FLORIDA 



32 N.4th Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



HYDES' PHILADELPHIA MARINE 
. . .BAND. . . 

and orchestra of 35 PIECES 

Can be engaged for all occasions by applying at 

234 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET 

or at Band Room, 

N. E. Cor. Fourth St. and Fairmount Ave 

Reheat sal OH Friday Night PHILADELPHIA 

XHE RUSSELL & ERWIN MFG. CO. 

Builders' Hardware 
19 North Fifth Street. Philadelphia 
J. H. Van Newkirk, Manager. 

BALTIC BREWING CO. Limited 

Fourth and Brown Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 

A. HARTUNG & CO. 

Glazed. Plated, Lithographic and Fancy 
Papers, Sheet Pictures, Paper Laces, 
Cut Cards and Card Board. 



24 and 26 Decatur St. 

Bet. 6th and 7th Sts. 
below Mar he t St 



Philadelphia 



^DAM SCHEIDT BREWING 
COMPANY 
NORRISTOWN 



QSTHEIMER BROS., 

Commission Merclianl s, 

No. 1022 Market Street, 

PHfLADELPHlA. 



Successor to 
C. D. PARTRIDGE & CO. 



J. C. WYMAN 

farmers* Restaurant 

Formerly in the Old Market NOW UNDE?. READING TERMINAL 

Twelfth and Market Streets T*-«ii rv 

i2tn and rilbert Streets 

p. S. — The hzst the market affords, served at reasonable rates 

PAINTER"^ EWING PIANOS 

satisfy the most critical. Sold from factory 
direct, saving purchaser all middlemen's 
profits and heavy wareroom expenses. .-. .-. 
Write for Catalogue and List of Bargains. 

Factory, 1105=1107 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia 

llJUlwl ■■ Ywv ^v-v/^i^i XI ■ ^fc WM. W. POWER 



Ifmpeiial 



EUROPEAN PLAN Rooms, $1.00 and upwards 

Newly Furnished and Equipped 
With every Modern Improvement 

ELEVENTH AND FILBERT STREETS 
PHILADELPHIA 



John N\. -Ha-rpe-r 5c Co. 

Importers \Di Coinmission 

MERCHANTS 

Ko. Ui I u 81., PHiianeipnia M^ 



HOWARD WOOD. President 
J. R. JONES. Sec. and Treas. 



Schuylkill 
Iron WorRs 



BUSINESS ESTABLISHED. 1826 
INCORPORATED. 1886 



Alan Wood Company 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Sheet Iron and Sheet Steel 

BLACK AND GALVANIZED 

Patent Planished Sheet Iron and Common and 
Charcoal Bloom Sheet and Plate Iron and Steel 



Orders solicited especially for Corrugated 
Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Shovel. Tack, 
Water Pipe, Smoke Stack. Last. Stamp- 
ing, Ferrule, Locomotive Headlight and 
Jacket Iron. 



No. 519 Arch Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



PHILADELPHIA HEADQUARTERS 

FOR 

Shafting, Hangers, Wood 

Pulleys, Belting, and 

Textile Mill Supplies 

CHARLES BOND 

520 ARCH STREET 



Before leaving town, call at 

•inc Bros. 

1018 Cbcslnnl Si. 



pi 



and supply yourself with a box of our 
delicious candy. .". All kinds of Patriotic 
and Souvenir bo.xes. 

SPECIALTIES 

Our 30c. and 50c. assortments 



I The Social Wants 1 

i as regard.s dress, find iheir supply here. S 

J Whether it be beautiful silks and satins, r 

S magnificent laces, slippers gloves or the mnny J 

5 accessories to tne tastefully attired woman S 

5 this store stands ready to do its part. 5 

S For there's money to be saved in the tine 5 

5 things here, as well as in the everyday needs S 

Marks Bros., 

I ARCH and EIGHTH STREETS | 



John Hem's & Co. 

Public Accountants 
and Auditors . . . 



Fellows .American and 
Pennsylvania Associations 
of Public Accountants 



508 Walnut Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



PI flTQC ^°^ Ladies' Gowns 
III II I nn Men's and Boys' Snits 
VUV 1 UU Children's and Infants' Wear 

Black Cheviots for Dresses 

are here in an assortment without a parallel, 
at prices lower than elsewhere, as they should 
be. We deal exclusively in Cloths — buy none 
but the very best standard makes, and retail 
them at the very lowest possible figures. We 
have rich, handsome Cheviots in Colors and 
Black at 7^c. per yard, a better one at Si.oo, 
ranging- up to very tine qualities at $2.00, 
worth .S2.50. All are same width. 54 inches. 

Broad Cloths in Colors and Lustrous Black 

are in high favor. Prices begin at $1.00 per 
yard, 50 inches wide and you will be surprised 
at the good quality you get at that figure — 
from that they range up to $2.50, 54 Inches 
wide, very superior makes and quality, all at 
very lowest prices. 
Venetian and Covert Cloths for Dresses 

Venetians 75c. and $1.00 per yard, 54 inches 
wide. Colors, Black and Mi.xed effects — both 

treat bargains. Higher qualities at $1.50 and 
2.00 per yard, 54 inches wide— all the New 
Spring Shades, Mixtures and Black. 

Plaided Back or Self-lined Cloths 

for Ladies' Suits and Capes, light weights, 
with beautiful linings for Suits, Golf. Bicycle, 
Tourist and Street wear — heavier weights for 
Capes. 

Steamer Rug:s, Fringed for Capes 

By far the largest assortment in Philadelphia, 
at prices lower than elsewhere. 

Cloths for Men's Wear and Boys' Wear 

An assortment far in excess of any other store 
— here you have the great advantages of im- 
mense stock, high value and low prices. 

A Great Retail Cloth Store 

Buyers or visitors note one broad fact — this is 
the greatest Retail Cloth Store in Philadelphia 
or anywhere. Large buying makes low prices 
— buying at the lowest, our customers get the 
benefit. It is our aim to have the very best 
Merchandise to meet the needs of the People 
of this great City of Philadelphia and outlying 
districts. 

SNODGRASS, MURRAY & CO. 

Retail Cloth Store 
MARKET AND NINTH STS. 

DURING THE GRAND ARMY ENCAMP 
ment a Special Orchestra is engaged at the 

FAMOUS CAFE RUDOLPH 

the prettiest Dining Room in Philadelphia 

Table de Hote Dinners 25 cents Suppers 25 cents 

CAFE AND RESTAURANT 
834 Arch and =7 North Ninth Streets 

EDWARDS & ELDREDGE, Proprietors 

vyM- B. HACKENBURG & CO. 

Incorporated Manufacturers of 

MACHINE AND SEWING SILKS 

516 Market Street 

Factory : 1341 to 1347 Noble Street Philadelphia. 



MILLER, BEYER & CO. 
This firm is composed of S. S. Miller, Henry Bain, 
Thomas J. Roche, C. C. Beyer, Edw. O. Roth and 
J. A. Elliott, who established the business in 1894, and 
occupy spacif us premises at Tenth and Filbert streets. 
They are extensive importers and jobbers of white 
goods, remnants, woolens, dress goods and fancy fab- 
rics, including the finest qualities of foreign and do- 
mestic production, and making a leading specialty of 
remnants, seconds and job lots The firm maintain 
direct relations with leading manufacturers at home 
and abroad, commanding exceptional facilities, and 
they control a business of large volume throughout the 
United States. 



Reserved for 



OTTO W RANG EL 

Confectionery 
and Restaurant 
144 N. Eighth St., Philadelphia 



'TpHE NATIONAL TRUST CO , 

LAND, TITLE AND TRUST CO. BLDG. 

S. W. Cor. Broad and Chestnut Sts., 

Philadelphia. 

y^EIKEL & SMITH SPICE CO., 
~' Incorporated. 

t2o N. FRONT STREET, 

Philadelphia. 

Wm. D. Weikel, Pres. Geo. H. Weikel, Treas. 

RESERVED FOR 

KERL ROTHFUSS 



J T. JACKSON & CO. 

REAL ESTATE BROKERS 
No. 711 Walnut Street - - Philadelphia 

DERWIND-WHITE 

COAL MINING CO. 



Betz Building 



Philadelphia 



/-JEO. W. BUMM 

SALT DEALER 
200 N. Delaware Ave. - - Philadelphia 

VW R. BRICE & CO. 

COMMISSION MERCHANTS 



23 S. Water Street 



Philadelphia 



ly'ENNEDY, WILLING & CO. 

SADLERY HARDWARE 
C24 Arch Street - - Philadelphia 

piNLEY ACKER & CO. 

GROCERS 

121 and 123 N. Eighth Street and Reading Termiiia' 

Philadelphia. 



qpALBOT & PETERSON, 

COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
40 SOUTH WATER ST., 
Philadelphia. 
j^ICE & SCHREIBER, 

COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 

19 SOUTH WATER ST., 
Philadelphia. 



G 



OODARD & TAYLOR, 



WINES AND LIQUORS, 

237 CHESTNUT ST., 

Philadelphia. 



OICHARD GRAHAM, 

RESTAURANT 

16 SOUTH BROAD STREET. 
Philadelphia. 

R. R. BRINGHURST. 

HOTEL ROYAL, 

19 North Eleventh Street, 

Philadelphia. 

I-jELME & McILHENNY 

MANUFACTURERS OF GAS METERS 

1339 Cherry Street - - Philadelphia 

Q'OLIER 

ENGINEERING CO. 
129 S. Eleventh Street - Philadelphia 

TTHOS. BRADLEY 

MEATS AND PROVISIONS 
Twenty-first and Market Sts. - Philadelphia 

ADAMS & KEEN Leather Manufacturers 

Fifth and Arch Sts., Phila 

/-•HARLES LENTZ & SONS 

^^ Surgical Instruments. 18 N. nth St., Phila. 

/^HAS. LAS.'^ Cigar Manufacturer 

233 North Eighth Stieet, Phila. 

CRANK KREIS Fine Wines AND LiQUORS 

S. W. Cor. Germanlriwn Ave. ami Cuinbcrlrind Si Philn. 



w 



ILLIAM LINDIG'S 



MOTEL HENGEN D.VNIEI, HKNIiRN, Pro,, 

16 and 18 North Twelfth Street, Phila. 



QOSCH'S RESTAURANT 

416 LIBK.A.RY ST., Pliilii 



Wm. .1 Van Hook 
Pr.iprii' 



j-|ENRY MiJLLER Notary Puhi-ic 

No. 507 Girard Aveuue, Phila. 

B 



ARBER & PERKINS 
29 31.33 N. Water St. 

2H X. Delaware Aveuue, Phila 



Who!e.sale Cash (;roci- 
and Tea Deal.r- 



^ONKLING-ARMSTRONG Terra Cotta Co. 

Works, Wis.sahick..u .\ve. and Juiiiaia St.. Phila. 

CRANK P HEID & CO. Manulacl.irersof 

■ Thirlcenth an.l fl'ooj Sts. line Cloth Hots and Caps 



w 



ILLIAM F. PFAUTZ imported and Key We»i 

N. K. Cor. CICAKS 

Ninth and Walnut Streets, Phila 



JRAU & PES A .Mauufa..turer> of 

1536 Columbia Ave. '■"''*'^- Havana cigars 

Phila. 



TREXLER 



Manufacturer of 

CIGARS 



TPHE LESTER MILK CO. •'• schondkr. Pr..,,. 
S. E. Cor. 15th and Race Street, Phila. 



612 N. Fifth Street 



iporlers and Itoltlers of 
RHINK WINKS 



WOWARD C. BLAYNEY SALOON 

N. E. Cor. Fifth and Walnut Streets, Phila. 

"i^M. CURRY & BRO. Trunks and Leather (;o,.,l- 
834 Chestnut Street, Phila. 

JACOB BUSCH Saloon 

6 and 8 South Sixth Sireet, Phila. 



R 



OBERT PATTERSON & SON 

Phila. Sand Dbalrrs 



MAIN BELTING CO. 

1233 Carpenter Street, Phila. 



G. ROUSE & CO., 
413 Arch Street, 



CARRIAGE GOODS 
Philadelphia. 



D 



AVID R.BURNS STEAM FITTER AND 

739 N. 19th St., Phila. PLUMBER. 



K 



NICKERBOCKER ICE CO 

S. W. Cor. Sixth and Arch Sts., Phila. 



w 



ILLIAM UNDERHILL 
1415 Filbert Street, Phila. 



Restaurant 



rHEODORF, J. GOLDSCHMID & CO 
ALLEGHENY CHEMICAL WORKS, Phila. 

/AN DUSEN, BRO. & CO. COaL 

Stephen Girard Building, Phila. 

[AMES BARKER MACHINIST 

' Second and Somerset Sts.. Phila. 

LCHOEN PRESSED STEEL CO 

y BETZ BUILDING, Phila. 



w 



ILLIAM SCMOLES & SON YARNS 

Second above Cambria Stieet, Phila. 



lOHN J. GRIFFIN & CO ( 

J 1S13 Race Street, Phila 



GAS METERS 



ELIZABETH VOLLMER 



BREWERY 

Randolph S: Jefrer>on Sts . Phila. 



J^ p. MATHIEU & CO., 

Manufacturers 
Surpass Kid. Capacity Unlimited. 

126 N. Fourth Street, 

Office, 1719 N. Tenth St. Philadelphia. 

KESSLER WAGON WORKS, 

Manufacturers of all kinds of 

Wagons, Trucks, Etc. 

For City and Export Trade. 

E. Girard Ave. and Norris St., Philada. 
piRE ASSOCIATION of Philadelphia. 

Organized Sept. 1,1817. Incorporated March 27. 1820. 

Charter Perpetual. 

Capital, $500,000.00, 

Assets, $6,430,863.38. 

DYER BROTHERS, 

Successors to Sherman. 

Hatters, 
No. 1017 Chestnut Street, 

Philadelphia. 

HOTEL VENDIG, 

European Plan, 

N. W. Cor. Market and Twelfth Sts., 

Philadelphia. 



R 



EADING TERMINAL Good MeaU at 
RESTAURANT, Reasonable Rates. 

Entrance from Waiting Room. Second 
Floor Reading Terminal. 

Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. 
G. A. Knoblauch. 

A. L. Millard, Long Distance Telephone. Chas. Ainge 
Principal. licensed and bonded Supt. 

STANDARD DETEtTIVE BUREAU, 

Main Office, 1413 Filbert Street, 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Branch Office, 1212 Atlantic Ave. Atlantic City, N. J. 

I^ICHOLAS J. GRIFFIN, Successor to 

A. J. Gallagher & Son and 

The Hamilton Distilling Co., 

Fine Whiskies, Free and in Bond. 

209 North Second Street, Philadelphia. 



fjARVEY D. NARRIGAN & CO., 
Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes, 

Wholesale, 

No. 617 Arch Street, 
Philadelphia. 

■yyiLLIAM RYAN, (Established in 1858.) 

Manufacturing Optician. 

Spectacles and Eye Glasses Wholesale and Retail, 
Oculists' Prescriptions Carefully Filled. 

Salesroom, 124 S. Seventh St., 

(Between Chestnut and Walnut Sts ) Philadelph'a. 

^lfred d. hoag 

Florist 

30 S. Seventeenth Street, Philadelphia 

Cut Flowers a Specialty 
Long Distance Telephone, 14126 D 

gLECTRICAL SUPPLY AND TELE- 
PHONE COMPANY 
Electrical Contractors 

1429 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
^©"Motors, Fans, Fixtures and Annunciators 

gEISWANGER BROS. 

Pork Packers, 

Refiners of Pure Lard 

and Manufacturers of F"ine Sausages 

Office, Packing and Curing Establishment 

Lancaster Ave. and 41st St., W. Phila., Pa. 

\YM. H. WARNER & BRO. 

Established 1S23 

. . .Medalists. . . 

424 N. Ninth Street Philadelphia, Pa. 

Designs made and 
Estimates given for Dies and Medals 

BROWN & BAILEY CO. incorporated 
Peuua. 
Manufacturers of 

Patent Lock Tuck Folding 
Boxes 
Franklin and Willow Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 

. . .Telephone 



BERRY & CO., . . Brokers . . 

Stocks, Groin, Cotton and Provisions, 

Phone 304 Bourse Building, 

Direct Wires to New York and Chicago. Phila. 

W. H. & G. W. ALLEN, 'Xalers' in"'' 

Hardware, Cutlery and Guns, 

Nos 113 and 115 Marl<et Street, Philadelnhia 
and 102 and 10, Church Strett, fauaaeipaia. 

M.J. DALTON, Importer of. 

Havana Goods always fresh. CiGARS 

Chestnut and Fifth Streets, 

Telephone No. 3168. Philadelphia. 

EDWIN J. CUMMINGS, COAX,, 

Office, 1032 Ridge Avenue. 

Yard, S E. Cor. 13th and Willow Sts. 

PHILADELPHIA. 



DUNGAN, HOOD & CO., Manufacturers of 
Incorporated Sept. 18. 1894. GLAZED KID, 

Office, 2100 American St., Phila. 

F. P. DILLEY & CO., Jobbers and Dealers 

Fine OM Whiskies, Wines, Brandies, Gins, Etc, 
No. 25 North Tenth St., Philadelphia. 



A, LASA'S 



" Hernan Cortes " and 
" Los Indies" 



CIGAR FACTORY 
28 N. Ninth Street „ 

1425 Hlbtrt Street PHILADELPHIA 

JOHNSTON, WARNER & CO , Limited 

. . GROCERS . . . 
1017 Market Street PHILADELPHIA 

I EWIS T. BROOKE & SONS Phone 1-23 24 

REAL ESTATE BROKERS 
18 South Broad Street PHILADELPHIA 

^HAS. A. MEURER Telephone 1-27-16 

NATIONAL CASKET CO. 
1015-1017 Filbert Street PHILADELPHIA 

YL/ILUAM J. QUAIN Hotel Campiglia 

CHOICE WINES AND LIQUORS 
214 South Eighth Street PHILADELPHIA 



LOYD BAILY Finest Brands of 

* WINES, LIQUORS. Etc. 

Germantown Avenue and 

Huntingdon Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



A" 



FDERHEIDER & SON 

Dealers and Importers of 
FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCOS 



N. W. Cor. Third ?nd Walnut Sts., Philadelphi» 

THE KENSINGTON ELECTRIC CO. 

■ E. T. Wilkinson W. Mclntyre 

Secty Pres. --^ 

Nathan foUock Wra. C. Bird 

Vice Pres. Treas. 

O ffice. 2514 Frankford Ave. PHILADELPHIA 

YY^LLIAM BARNETT Established in 1817 

Manufacturer of 
Office and Warehouse : WHEAT STARCH 

730 and 732 S. Bro.^d St., Philadelphia 
jyiOFFIT, WENTWORTH & CO. 

Produce Commissio.v Merchants 
17 South Water Street, 

PHILADELPHIA 

^OATES COLHMAN 

Importer of HAVANA CIGARS 
25 and 27 South 15th Street 

PHILADELPHIA 

r^YRUS W. LINTON 

Rest.\ukant 



1105 Market Street 



Philadelphia 



ALUtui/PV fi, Pll Main Works— Richdale 

. nnnKLT a UU. Worcester Co., Mass. 

Works at ^'ab-Zl Vine Street, Philada.. Pa. 
Manufacturers of Machine Knives of every description. 
Tenon, Veneer. Shingle, Dye-wood, Planing and Mould- 
ing. All kinds of paper cutting and leather splitting 
knives and shear lilades for cutting nictal. Telephone. 



JOHN JAMISON, Established 1S49- 

Prodl'ce Commission Mekciia.nt 
Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Lard, Provisions, Salt. 

Creamery and Shippers' Supplies 
Water and Market Streets, Pliilartelphia. 
Packing House— 13S and 140 N. Delaware Ave. 



THE GEO. A. SMITH MACHINERY CO. 
Manufacturers of and Dealers in Boot and Shoe 
Machinery. Duplicate Parts, Leather and Findings. 
We carrv'in stock ■ vervthing used In the nianufaclure 
of bootsand shres. Sole Agents for McKay Sole Sewing, 
Heeling and Trimming, Metallc Fastening and Tack- 
ing Machines. 415-417 Arch Street, Philailelphia, Pa. 

I H.OSMOND Established 1843- 

Manufiiciurerof He.\tei!S .\nd Ranges 

NO. lot) North Seventh Street 

Philadelphia 

Bricklaying and Repairing Telephone 4138 

Novelty Woolen Mills 

SAMUEL W. HAINES & CO. 
Importers and Manufacturers of 

SHAWLS AND STEAMER RUGS- 
no: Market Street, Philadelphia 

QUAKER CITY CHOCOLATE AND 
CONFECTIONERY CO. 

Manufacturers of 

Gold Seal Brand Fine Confections 

2140-2154 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia 



^s 



■'^^^ 



